Zingerman's Bakehouse Magic Brownies Net wt. 1/4 lb

Zingerman's Bakehouse, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 12 December 2012 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Zingerman's BAKEHOUSE pastry labels were found not identifying the source of butter and cream ingredients as milk; the source of flour as wheat, and lacking identity of soy allergen found in products.

The record

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Product

Zingerman's Bakehouse Magic Brownies Net wt. 1/4 lb

Reason for recall

Zingerman's BAKEHOUSE pastry labels were found not identifying the source of butter and cream ingredients as milk; the source of flour as wheat, and lacking identity of soy allergen found in products.

Recalling firm

Zingerman's Bakehouse, Inc.

Firm location

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0792-2013

Quantity

1/4 lb (Total Quantity: 2,323)

Distribution

Michigan and Ohio

Initiated

2 November 2012

Reported by FDA

12 December 2012

Terminated

1 February 2013

Firm notified by

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Product codes

none

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 47 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 47 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 47. 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 47 of them.
• The recall ran for 3 months, from 2 November 2012 to termination on 1 February 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 bakery product run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter 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.

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Other bakery recalls

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Other records from Zingerman's Bakehouse, Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 47 other records name this firm.

All 48 records for Zingerman's Bakehouse, Inc.

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