GREY GHOST BAKERY scratch-made cookies LEMON SUGAR NET WT 1.4 OZ (40 G), UPC 8 53152…
TFI Holding dba Grey Ghost Bakery recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 15 January 2020 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. The product contains undeclared sulfites.
The record
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- Product
- GREY GHOST BAKERY scratch-made cookies LEMON SUGAR NET WT 1.4 OZ (40 G), UPC 8 53152 00308 1 , 4 OZ (113 G) UPC 8 53152 00332 6 & 8 OZ (225 G) UPC 8 53152 00307 4 GREY GHOST BAKERY 1750 SIGNAL POINT RD, STE 2A CHARLESTON, SC 29412
- UPC
- 853152003081
- Reason for recall
- The product contains undeclared sulfites.
- Recalling firm
- TFI Holding dba Grey Ghost Bakery
- Firm location
- Charleston, South Carolina, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Ongoing
- Recall number
- F-0559-2020
- Quantity
- Bulk cookies: 70 lbs, 8 oz boxes: 2899 units; 4 oz canisters: 1717 units; 1.4 oz packs: 2101 units
- Distribution
- Product was shipped to the following states: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI & WY.
- Initiated
- 17 December 2019
- Reported by FDA
- 15 January 2020
- Firm notified by
- Letter
- Product codes
- 1612019, 1622019, 1632019, 1752019, 1772019, 1782019, 1802019, 1822019, 1892019, 1912019, 1962019, 1972019, 1982019, 2042019, 2052019, 2062019, 2082019, 2112019, 2132019, 2142019, 2192019, 2212019, 2252019, 2272019, 2282019, 2312019, 2332019, 2412019, 2542019, 2552019, 2572019, 2632019, 2682019, 2692019, 2712019, 2742019, 2752019, 2762019, 2772019, 2782019, 2822019, 2882019, 2912019, 2922019, 2952019, 2962019, 2972019, 3042019, 3062019, 3082019, 3102019, 3122019, 3172019, 3192019, 3212019, 3252019, 3282019, 3302019, 3362019, 3372019, 3382019, 3452019.
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.
- This recall has no termination date on the record, so as published it had not been terminated under 21 CFR 7.55.
- The distribution pattern names 36 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- 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: Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, 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
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.
The allergens named in this record: sulfites.
Filed under bakery. 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.
All 2020 recalls · All FDA food recall data
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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