Safeway Kitchens Enriched Hamburger Buns; 8 buns; NET WT 17 oz (1 lb 1 oz) 482 g UPC 0…
Albertsons Companies, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 17 February 2016 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Cloth material that is part of the production equipment may be in the product.
The record
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Product
Safeway Kitchens Enriched Hamburger Buns; 8 buns; NET WT 17 oz (1 lb 1 oz) 482 g UPC 0 21130 18456 9; Distributed by:Safeway Inc. Pleasanton, CA 94566 Contains: Wheat May Contain eggs, milk.
UPC
021130184569
Reason for recall
Cloth material that is part of the production equipment may be in the product.
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 is one of 14 records covering the same recall event. The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so a recall of a product line appears here many times. Counting these records as 14 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 14. Every product code in this event is listed together on the record that covers the whole recall, which is the page a search engine is pointed to for all 14 of them.
The recall ran for 4 weeks, from 10 January 2016 to termination on 9 February 2016. 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 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of milk or a dairy product run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Dairy recalls split between pathogen contamination in products that skipped or under-ran pasteurisation and undeclared milk in products that should never have contained it, which is the same allergen viewed from two directions.
Named in the distribution pattern: California, Hawaii, Nevada. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
Filed under milk and dairy and eggs. A product can sit in more than one.
Other milk and dairy 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.
Undeclared Soy. The firm received complaints of sausage in the burritos. Upon review the firm discovered the sausage contains soy which is not listed on the label.
Behind every recall is a clause 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.
Recall records come from the openFDA food enforcement API, published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain. Krolda adds the hazard classification and the clause mapping; neither is an FDA determination. Always check the FDA notice before acting on a recall.
