P/L HAMS( Under the following Trade Names - CHERRY VALLEY, COMPARE, FINEFARE, GIANT…

Schmidt Baking Co., Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 7 March 2018 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Schmidt Baking Company has decided to initiate a recall of various bread products, after being informed by one of their vendors that the ingredient supplied to them by the vendor is under recall. Potential of foreign material in product.

The record

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Product

P/L HAMS( Under the following Trade Names - CHERRY VALLEY, COMPARE, FINEFARE, GIANT, GOURMET, HP, HOLSUM, KEYFOODS, KRASDALE, METFOODS, PIONEER, REDNER, SHOPPERS, SUPERA, SUPERBREAD, TOP TOMATO, TRADEFAIR, WEIS, 7 ELEVEN, HAUWALD, GREAT VALUE, GENERIC, GOURMET 16CT, REDER 16CT, WEIS 16CT, CLOVERVALLEY, COUSINS )

Reason for recall

Schmidt Baking Company has decided to initiate a recall of various bread products, after being informed by one of their vendors that the ingredient supplied to them by the vendor is under recall. Potential of foreign material in product.

Recalling firm

Schmidt Baking Co., Inc.

Firm location

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0854-2018

Quantity

89940 Tray Count

Distribution

Product was distributed to various retail distribution centers in the United States Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York.

Initiated

27 December 2017

Reported by FDA

7 March 2018

Terminated

1 March 2018

Firm notified by

Letter

Product codes

Julian code Dates are - 344, and 345

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 26 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 26 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 26. All 26 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 2 months, from 27 December 2017 to termination on 1 March 2018. 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 fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Fresh produce is the category where contamination arrives before the facility does: irrigation water, soil amendments and field workers are the routes, and nothing downstream of the farm is a kill step for a product eaten raw.

What this recall was for

Filed under fresh produce. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 26 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 25 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.

Other fresh produce 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 Schmidt Baking Co., Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 25 other records name this firm.

All 26 records for Schmidt Baking Co., Inc.

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