Ella's Kitchen yum yummy milk + vanilla baby cookies Net Wt. 3.8 oz (108 g) Ella's…
Ella's Kitchen recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 19 December 2012 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Cookies may contain mold.
The record
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- Product
- Ella's Kitchen yum yummy milk + vanilla baby cookies Net Wt. 3.8 oz (108 g) Ella's Daddy's Company Ella's Kitchen Inc. Montclair, NJ 07042 UPC 845901000526 packaged in a chipboard carton with 12 cookies per box
- UPC
- 845901000526
- Reason for recall
- Cookies may contain mold.
- Recalling firm
- Ella's Kitchen
- Firm location
- Montclair, New Jersey, United States
- Classification
- Class III
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0821-2013
- Quantity
- 26,400 retail units
- Distribution
- Nationwide
- Initiated
- 12 October 2012
- Reported by FDA
- 19 December 2012
- Terminated
- 30 June 2014
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Best By 5/07/2013 and 5/16/2013
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 is one of 2 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 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. All 2 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 21 months, from 12 October 2012 to termination on 30 June 2014. 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 milk or a dairy product run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer 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.
What this recall was for
Spoilage and mould
A spoilage recall means the food degraded before its date: mould growth, unintended fermentation, swelling or rancidity, usually traced to a seal, a formulation or a storage temperature.
A preventive controls plan covers spoilage 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 117.93
- Warehousing and distribution: storage and transport under conditions that protect food against contamination and against deterioration of the food and its container.
- 21 CFR 117.80(b)(3)
- Time and temperature: holding food at temperatures that do not allow microorganisms to grow, and for no longer than the process allows.
Filed under milk and dairy and bakery. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 2 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 1 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-12-19 | Ella's Kitchen yum yummy apple + ginger baby cookies Net Wt. 3.8 oz (108 g) Ella's Daddy's Company Ella's Kitchen Inc. Montclair, NJ 07042 UPC 845901000533 packaged in a chipboard carton with 12 cookies per box | Ella's Kitchen | Cookies may contain mold. | Class III |
Other milk and dairy 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 Ella's Kitchen
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-12-19 | Ella's Kitchen yum yummy apple + ginger baby cookies Net Wt. 3.8 oz (108 g) Ella's Daddy's Company Ella's Kitchen Inc. Montclair, NJ 07042 UPC 845901000533 packaged in a chipboard carton with 12 cookies per box | Ella's Kitchen | Cookies may contain mold. | Class III |
All 2012 recalls · All FDA food recall data
21 CFR 117.93 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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