Gem City Fine Foods GF Vegan Chocolate Cake, 25 oz, in recyclable plastic circular…

Gem City Fine Foods, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 15 March 2023 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. 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."

The record

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Product

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

UPC

855026001421

Reason for recall

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."

Recalling firm

Gem City Fine Foods, LLC

Firm location

West Valley City, Utah, United States

Classification

Class III

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0413-2023

Quantity

460 cases of 4 cakes each

Distribution

Distributor in CO.

Initiated

7 January 2023

Reported by FDA

15 March 2023

Terminated

16 April 2024

Firm notified by

E-Mail

Product codes

Batch codes: Mfr Date: Best by date: 22180-06 7/13/22 7/13/23 22221-01 8/25/22 8/25/23 22237-01 9/9/22 9/9/23 22245-01 8/25/22 8/25/23 22245-02 9/21/22 9/21/23 22264-02 10/10/22 10/10/23 22292-01 10/28/22 10/28/23

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

• Class III means the FDA judged that the product was unlikely to cause harm but violated FDA labelling or manufacturing regulation. 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 15 months, from 7 January 2023 to termination on 16 April 2024. 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 2 months 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.

Filed under bakery and snacks and confectionery. A product can sit in more than one.

Other bakery recalls

These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. 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

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