Parade Enriched All-Purpose Corn Meal Yellow NET WT/PESO NETO 5 LB (2.27 kg); Parade…

C. H. Guenther & Son, Inc.dba Morrison Milling recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 20 April 2016 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. May contain small metal fragments from wire mesh sifter.

The record

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Product

Parade Enriched All-Purpose Corn Meal Yellow NET WT/PESO NETO 5 LB (2.27 kg); Parade Enriched All-Purpose Corn Meal Yellow NET WT/PESO NETO 32 OZ (2 LB); Hill Country Fare Enriched Yellow Cornmeal NET WT 5 LBS CONT. NET. 2.3 kg; Hill Country Fare Enriched Yellow Cornmeal NET WT 32 OZ (2 LBS); Morrison's Premium Yellow Corn Meal Self-Rising Mix Enriched NET WT 5 LB (2.27 kg); Morrison's Premium Yellow Corn Meal Enriched NET WT 5 LB (2.27 kg) - all packaged in paper bags; Luby's Yellow Corn Meal NET WT 25 LB (11.34 kg); Morrison's Peacemaker Yellow Corn Meal Enriched NET WT 25 LB (11.34 KG); Morrison's Premium Yellow Degermed Corn Meal NET WT 25 LB (11.34 kg); Ben E. Keith Keith's Exclusive Premium Yellow Corn Meal NET WT 25 LB (11.34 kg); Morrison's Premium Yellow Corn Meal NET WT 25 LB (11.33 kg)

Reason for recall

May contain small metal fragments from wire mesh sifter.

Recalling firm

C. H. Guenther & Son, Inc.dba Morrison Milling

Firm location

Denton, Texas, United States

Classification

Class III

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0821-2016

Quantity

297,348 cases

Distribution

Nationwide throughout the US

Initiated

7 December 2015

Reported by FDA

20 April 2016

Terminated

2 August 2016

Firm notified by

Letter

Product codes

All lots

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 81 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 81 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 81. All 81 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 8 months, from 7 December 2015 to termination on 2 August 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 FDA published the enforcement report 4 months after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a prepared meal or sandwich run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Prepared meals concentrate every other category's hazards into one package: they are assembled from many components, handled after any cook step, sold ready to eat, and carry an ingredient list long enough to lose an allergen in.

What this recall was for

Filed under prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

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Other prepared meals and sandwiches 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 C. H. Guenther & Son, Inc.dba Morrison Milling

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 81 other records name this firm.

All 82 records for C. H. Guenther & Son, Inc.dba Morrison Milling

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