Weight Watchers 6 Original Bagels, 15 oz packages

Bimbo Bakeries Usa recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 27 February 2013 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. The firm found metal fragments in two packages of product.

The record

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Product

Weight Watchers 6 Original Bagels, 15 oz packages

Reason for recall

The firm found metal fragments in two packages of product.

Recalling firm

Bimbo Bakeries Usa

Firm location

Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1004-2013

Quantity

4,032 packages

Distribution

Products were to distributed to grocery outlets within the US in AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, SC, and TN.

Initiated

16 January 2013

Reported by FDA

27 February 2013

Terminated

28 February 2013

Firm notified by

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Product codes

Best buy dates (month and day) "JAN 18" to and including "JAN 27" found on the lock tab bag closures in the following states: AL, FL, GA, NC, SC and TN.

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 4 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 4 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 4. 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 4 of them.
• The recall ran for 6 weeks, from 16 January 2013 to termination on 28 February 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 6 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a bakery product run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter than usual 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: Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee. 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

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 Bimbo Bakeries Usa

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 36 other records name this firm.

All 37 records for BIMBO Bakeries USA

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