WHITE WHEAT R/T ( Under the following Trade Names - O/T 2PK, O/T, WEIS, ULTRA GRAIN )

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

WHITE WHEAT R/T ( Under the following Trade Names - O/T 2PK, O/T, WEIS, ULTRA GRAIN )

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-0863-2018

Quantity

23070

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. 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 26 of them.
• 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 a grain, flour or pasta product run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Flour is a raw agricultural product that consumers treat as though it were cooked, which is the whole reason raw flour recalls exist: nothing in milling is a kill step, and the hazard only appears when somebody eats the dough.

What this recall was for

Filed under grains, flour and pasta. A product can sit in more than one.

Other grains, flour and pasta 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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