Sugar free cake: Almond flavor. Package size:12 oz

Cakes & More Delight's recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 18 December 2013 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Lack of phenylketonuric warning. The main ingredient "Sugar Free RichCreme Base' contains aspartame.

The record

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Product

Sugar free cake: Almond flavor. Package size:12 oz

Reason for recall

Lack of phenylketonuric warning. The main ingredient "Sugar Free RichCreme Base' contains aspartame.

Recalling firm

Cakes & More Delight's

Firm location

Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, United States

Classification

Class III

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0822-2014

Quantity

500 boxes total (12 units each)

Distribution

PR only

Initiated

10 September 2013

Reported by FDA

18 December 2013

Terminated

5 February 2014

Firm notified by

Telephone

Product codes

no codes

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 6 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 6 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 6. 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 6 of them.
• The recall ran for 5 months, from 10 September 2013 to termination on 5 February 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 3 months after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a bakery product run a median of 6 months, so this one was about typical 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.

Filed under bakery and nuts and seeds. A product can sit in more than one.

Other bakery recalls

These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. 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 Cakes & More Delight's

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 5 other records name this firm.

All 6 records for Cakes & More Delight's

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