Betty Croker, Super Moist Cake Mix, Golden Vanilla, NET WT 15.25 oz (432 g), UPC 0 16000…
General Mills, Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 6 February 2013 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. General Mills is recalling a limited quantity of Betty Crocker SuperMoist Golden Vanilla cake because of a labeling issue. Some product was packaged incorrectly, and contains undeclared FDandC color ingredient not listed on the box's ingredient label. The undeclared colors are: Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Red 40 and Blue 1.
The record
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- Product
- Betty Croker, Super Moist Cake Mix, Golden Vanilla, NET WT 15.25 oz (432 g), UPC 0 16000 40993 4, Dist by General Mills Sales, Inc., Minneapolis, MN 55440. Case UPC code 1600040993000
- UPC
- 016000409934
- Reason for recall
- General Mills is recalling a limited quantity of Betty Crocker SuperMoist Golden Vanilla cake because of a labeling issue. Some product was packaged incorrectly, and contains undeclared FDandC color ingredient not listed on the box's ingredient label. The undeclared colors are: Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Red 40 and Blue 1.
- Recalling firm
- General Mills, Inc
- Firm location
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0936-2013
- Quantity
- 6223 cases (12 consumer packages / case)
- Distribution
- AZ, CA, HI, ID, MT, OR, UT, WA GUAM, AMERICAN SAMOA, MEXICO, SINGAPORE, PAPUA NW GUINEA.
- Initiated
- 10 December 2012
- Reported by FDA
- 6 February 2013
- Terminated
- 18 June 2013
- Firm notified by
- Letter
- Product codes
- Consumer package code: Better Used By 14SEP2013 Case code: 14SEP3LD
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 6 months, from 10 December 2012 to termination on 18 June 2013. 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 distribution pattern names 7 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 8 weeks 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
What this recall was for
Undeclared allergens
An undeclared allergen recall means a food contained one of the major allergens and the label did not say so, either because the wrong label was applied or because an ingredient carried an allergen nobody traced.
A preventive controls plan covers an undeclared allergen 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 117.135(c)(2)
- Food allergen controls: the written preventive controls that keep an allergen out of a food it does not belong in, and that get the allergens present onto the label.
- 21 CFR 101.4
- Ingredient declaration: every ingredient listed by its common name, in descending order of predominance, on the label of a packaged food.
- 21 CFR 117 subpart G
- Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
Filed under bakery. A product can sit in more than one.
Other bakery 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 General Mills, Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 37 other records name this firm.
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21 CFR 117.135(c)(2) 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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