Canadian Product: Kellogg's Mini Wheats, Brown Sugar Flavour Cereal, 6 ct., 10 ct, 12…
Kellogg Company recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 14 November 2012 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. This voluntary recall is initiated due to the possible presence of fragments of flexible metal mesh from a faulty manufacturing part that were found in certain Mini-Wheats¿ cereal produced in a single Kellogg plant between April 1 and September 21, 2012.
The record
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- Product
- Canadian Product: Kellogg's Mini Wheats, Brown Sugar Flavour Cereal, 6 ct., 10 ct, 12 ct, 16ct; 400G, 510G, 850 G, 1300 G
- Reason for recall
- This voluntary recall is initiated due to the possible presence of fragments of flexible metal mesh from a faulty manufacturing part that were found in certain Mini-Wheats¿ cereal produced in a single Kellogg plant between April 1 and September 21, 2012.
- Recalling firm
- Kellogg Company
- Firm location
- Battle Creek, Michigan, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0603-2013
- Quantity
- none in USA
- Distribution
- US, nationwide and Canada
- Initiated
- 2 October 2012
- Reported by FDA
- 14 November 2012
- Terminated
- 26 August 2013
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Date code 2013 AL 01-2013 Jl 29 Case UPC6410020738, 6410044892, 6410052652, 6410059008, 6410059011
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 is one of 4 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 4 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 4. 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 4 of them.
- The recall ran for 11 months, from 2 October 2012 to termination on 26 August 2013. 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 6 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a grain, flour or pasta product run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Flour is a raw agricultural product that consumers treat as though it were cooked, which is the whole reason raw flour recalls exist: nothing in milling is a kill step, and the hazard only appears when somebody eats the dough.
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.
Filed under grains, flour and pasta. A product can sit in more than one.
Other grains, flour and pasta 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 Kellogg Company
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 34 other records name this firm.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-06-27 | Kellogg's Honey Smacks, 15.3 oz. and 23 oz. | Kellogg Company | Kellogg North America initiated a voluntary recall of Kellogg s Honey Smacks, 15.3 oz. and 23 oz., due to potential contamination with Salmonella. | Class I |
| 2016-10-19 | Kelloggs ¿ Eggo ¿ Nutri-Grain¿ Whole Wheat Waffles 12.3 oz (10 ct) retail carton 8, 12.3 oz retail cartons per case | Kellogg Company | Potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class II |
| 2016-07-27 | Keebler Cookie Dough Minis, 150 ct., 2.5 oz. | Kellogg Company | Kellogg Company initiated a voluntary recall of multiple snack food items because of the potential for undeclared allergen peanut due to a supplier's recall of flour. | Class II |
| 2016-07-27 | Keebler Graham Crumbs, 160 oz. , 400 oz. | Kellogg Company | Kellogg Company initiated a voluntary recall of multiple snack food items because of the potential for undeclared allergen peanut due to a supplier's recall of flour. | Class II |
| 2016-07-27 | Keebler Animals Crackers; 10 ct., 2.4 oz. | Kellogg Company | Kellogg Company initiated a voluntary recall of multiple snack food items because of the potential for undeclared allergen peanut due to a supplier's recall of flour. | Class II |
| 2016-07-27 | Keebler E. L. Fudge Double Stuffed Sandwich Cookies, 12 ct., 12 oz. | Kellogg Company | Kellogg Company initiated a voluntary recall of multiple snack food items because of the potential for undeclared allergen peanut due to a supplier's recall of flour. | Class II |
| 2016-07-27 | Famous Amos Cookies Chocolate Chip, 12 ct., 12.4 oz.; and 2.7 oz. cup | Kellogg Company | Kellogg Company initiated a voluntary recall of multiple snack food items because of the potential for undeclared allergen peanut due to a supplier's recall of flour. | Class II |
| 2016-07-27 | Kashi Whole Grain Bars 35 g individual bar, 18 count retail carton (630 g), 6 cartons per case | Kellogg Company | Product contains sunflower seeds potentially contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women. | Class I |
| 2016-07-27 | Kashi GOLEAN Honey Pecan Baklava Bars 1.59 oz. individual bar 5 count retail carton (7.95 oz.), 6 cartons per case; 8 count carton (12.72 oz.); 12 count food service carton (19 oz.), 1 carton per case | Kellogg Company | Product contains sunflower seeds potentially contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women. | Class I |
| 2016-07-27 | Keebler Gripz Chips D 325 ct Bulk, .9 oz. | Kellogg Company | Kellogg Company initiated a voluntary recall of multiple snack food items because of the potential for undeclared allergen peanut due to a supplier's recall of flour. | Class II |
All 35 records for Kellogg Company
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21 CFR 117.40 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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