Vegan Chocolate Cake, 25 oz., packaged in plastic base/cake dome, UPC 855026001421, Gem…
Gem City Fine Foods, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 3 February 2021 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Mislabeled - Nutrition facts panel and list of ingredients were incorrect.
The record
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- Product
- Vegan Chocolate Cake, 25 oz., packaged in plastic base/cake dome, UPC 855026001421, Gem City Fine Foods, www.gemcityfinefoods.com. Keep Frozen.
- UPC
- 855026001421
- Reason for recall
- Mislabeled - Nutrition facts panel and list of ingredients were incorrect.
- Recalling firm
- Gem City Fine Foods, LLC
- Firm location
- West Valley City, Utah, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0228-2021
- Quantity
- 164 cakes (41 cases of 4 cakes each)
- Distribution
- IN, TX.
- Initiated
- 22 December 2020
- Reported by FDA
- 3 February 2021
- Terminated
- 11 January 2022
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- Batch Code 20324-01, Expires 11/24/2021
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 13 months, from 22 December 2020 to termination on 11 January 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 2 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 6 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a bakery product run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: Indiana, Texas. 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
Undeclared allergens
An undeclared allergen recall means a food contained one of the major allergens and the label did not say so, either because the wrong label was applied or because an ingredient carried an allergen nobody traced.
A preventive controls plan covers an undeclared allergen 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 117.135(c)(2)
- Food allergen controls: the written preventive controls that keep an allergen out of a food it does not belong in, and that get the allergens present onto the label.
- 21 CFR 101.4
- Ingredient declaration: every ingredient listed by its common name, in descending order of predominance, on the label of a packaged food.
- 21 CFR 117 subpart G
- Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
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 Gem City Fine Foods, LLC
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-15 | Gem City Fine Foods GF Vegan Chocolate Cake, 25 oz, in recyclable plastic circular container with black base and clear lid, Gem City Fine Foods, LLC, 3403 S 1400 W, Ste C., West Valley City, UT 84119. UPC 855026-00142-1 | Gem City Fine Foods, LLC | Incorrect ingredients label on back of product shows "Contains: rBST-free dairy, cage-free eggs, and soy" when the product does not. This statement is found above "Made in a facility that uses Dairy, Eggs and Soy." | Class III |
| 2022-11-23 | Gem City Fine Foods GF Flourless Chocolate Torte, 4 oz., frozen gluten free dessert, clear plastic package, UPC 855026001018, Gem City Fine Foods, LLC, 3403 S 1400 W, Suite C, W Valley City, UT 84119 | Gem City Fine Foods, LLC | Gluten Free Flourless Chocolate Torte mislabeled with Triple Berry Streusel Cheesecake label resulting in undeclared soy due to soy lecithin ingredient. | Class II |
| 2021-09-08 | Flourless Chocolate Torte, 14 oz., in recyclable plastic circular container with black base and clear lid, Gem City Fine Foods, 3403 S 1400 W, Suite C, West Valley City, UT 84119. There are 4/cs. UPC 855026001186. Store Frozen or Thawed in Fridge. | Gem City Fine Foods, LLC | Frozen desserts are mislabeled. Flourless Chocolate Torte mislabeled with Triple Berry Streusel Cheesecake ingredients and nutrition label. Chocolate Torte and Triple Berry Streusel are both mislabeled with pecans as an ingredient although firm has not used nuts of any kind in its products or the facility since April 2018. | Class II |
| 2021-09-08 | Triple Berry Streusel Cheesecake, 20 oz., in recyclable plastic circular container with black base and clear lid, Gem City Fine Foods, 3403 S 1400 W, Suite C, West Valley City, UT 84119. There are 4/cs. UPC 855026001193. Store Frozen or Thawed in Fridge. | Gem City Fine Foods, LLC | Frozen desserts are mislabeled. Flourless Chocolate Torte mislabeled with Triple Berry Streusel Cheesecake ingredients and nutrition label. Chocolate Torte and Triple Berry Streusel are both mislabeled with pecans as an ingredient although firm has not used nuts of any kind in its products or the facility since April 2018. | Class III |
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21 CFR 117.135(c)(2) 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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