Class IITerminated · reported 2021-12-01

Kings Hawaiian Hawaiian Sweet Hamburger Buns8 buns NET WT 12.8 oz. (362.9 g) UPC 0…

King's Hawaiian Bakery recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 1 December 2021 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Products that were on HOLD for potential foreign materials was accidently released into commerce. The products released may be contaminated with small plastic foreign material.

The record

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Product: Kings Hawaiian Hawaiian Sweet Hamburger Buns8 buns NET WT 12.8 oz. (362.9 g) UPC 0 73435-06050 Product Number 800020
UPC: 07343506050
Reason for recall: Products that were on HOLD for potential foreign materials was accidently released into commerce. The products released may be contaminated with small plastic foreign material.
Recalling firm: King's Hawaiian Bakery
Firm location: Torrance, California, United States
Classification: Class II
Status: Terminated
Recall number: F-0215-2022
Quantity: 336 cases or 4,032 units/packages.
Distribution: One retailer with DC's in CA, AZ, OR, WA
Initiated: 15 November 2021
Reported by FDA: 1 December 2021
Terminated: 7 March 2022
Firm notified by: Letter
Product codes: Lot Code 081122; Time Stamp HH:MM 12:40 14:05- Frozen Best By Date 03/22/2022

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 15 November 2021 to termination on 7 March 2022. 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 distribution pattern names 3 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 2 weeks after the firm began the recall.
The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.

Named in the distribution pattern: Arizona, Oregon, Washington. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

What this recall was for

Foreign material

A foreign material recall means something that is not food was found in food: metal, plastic, glass, wood or insect matter, usually shed by equipment during processing.

A preventive controls plan covers foreign material 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 117.40: Equipment and utensils: plant equipment designed and maintained so it cannot contaminate food with lubricants, fuel, metal fragments or contaminated water.
21 CFR 117.80(c): Manufacturing operations: the measures that protect food from contamination during processing, including the effective ones against metal and other extraneous material.
21 CFR 117.150: Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.

Other records from King's Hawaiian Bakery

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.

Reported	Product	Firm	Reason	Class
2022-09-14	King's Hawaiian 10.5 oz. Pretzel Hamburger Buns (UPC 73435000365), 10.2 oz. Pretzel Bites (UPC 73435000525.), and 11 oz. Slider Buns (UPC 73435000372 ) packed in plastic bags. Distributed by King s Hawaiian Bakery West, Inc., 19161 Harborgate Way, Torrance, CA 90501	King's Hawaiian Bakery	Ingredient used to manufacture pretzel products may have been contaminated with Cronobacter sakazakii, and/or Clostridium botulinum.	Class II

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