Cookies Bergen, Soft Baked Chocolate Brownie Cookies, NET WEIGHT: 4.44 OZ (126g)…
Dollar General Corporation recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 26 October 2016 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Mold found in cookie product
The record
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- Product
- Cookies Bergen, Soft Baked Chocolate Brownie Cookies, NET WEIGHT: 4.44 OZ (126g), Produced by P.W. Sponmet Sp.l., Poland
- Reason for recall
- Mold found in cookie product
- Recalling firm
- Dollar General Corporation
- Firm location
- Goodlettsville, Tennessee, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0177-2017
- Quantity
- 146,455 units
- Distribution
- Nationwide
- Initiated
- 22 September 2016
- Reported by FDA
- 26 October 2016
- Terminated
- 25 January 2017
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- Lot number: L1615123 Expiration Date: April 11,2017
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class II means the FDA judged a remote probability of serious harm, or a probability of temporary or medically reversible harm. The class is assigned by an agency health hazard evaluation under 21 CFR 7.41, not by the firm.
- The firm started this recall itself. Most FDA food recalls are voluntary, and a recall is a food safety plan working rather than failing. The circumstances in which the agency asks for one instead are set out in 21 CFR 7.45.
- This record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 4 months, from 22 September 2016 to termination on 25 January 2017. Termination means the agency judged that all reasonable effort had been made, under 21 CFR 7.55, and it says nothing about whether product remained in circulation.
- The FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a bakery product run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Bakery is overwhelmingly an allergen category rather than a pathogen one: baking is a kill step, but a bakery runs many recipes down shared lines, so the failure that recalls a bakery product is usually a label or a changeover.
What this recall was for
Spoilage and mould
A spoilage recall means the food degraded before its date: mould growth, unintended fermentation, swelling or rancidity, usually traced to a seal, a formulation or a storage temperature.
A preventive controls plan covers spoilage under the clauses below. This is where the control belongs, not a finding against any firm named on this page: a recall record states a reason, and most of these recalls were initiated by the firm itself.
- 21 CFR 117.93
- Warehousing and distribution: storage and transport under conditions that protect food against contamination and against deterioration of the food and its container.
- 21 CFR 117.80(b)(3)
- Time and temperature: holding food at temperatures that do not allow microorganisms to grow, and for no longer than the process allows.
Filed under bakery and snacks and confectionery. A product can sit in more than one.
Other bakery recalls for the same reason
These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food, recalled for a hazard this record also names. Unlike the firm’s own records below, they come from different companies, which is what makes them a pattern rather than a history.
Other records from Dollar General Corporation
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 27 other records name this firm.
All 28 records for Dollar General Corporation
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21 CFR 117.93 is the clause behind this recall, and it is one somebody has to produce evidence for at their next audit. Krolda maps supplier documents to the clause they satisfy in FSSC 22000, IFS Food and 21 CFR 117, and routes the corrective action when the evidence is missing.
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