Red Velvet Layered Cheesecake is one whole cake (9" round cake) that has been pre-sliced…
Chuckanut Bay Foods LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 29 July 2020 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Undeclared walnut. Carrot Cake Layered Cheesecake was incorrectly decorated as Red Velvet Layered Cheesecake and was mis-labeled. Finished product label does not declare walnut.
The record
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Product
Red Velvet Layered Cheesecake is one whole cake (9" round cake) that has been pre-sliced into 14 slices and packaged in a white case box. Cheesecake is wrapped in a white band, ran through a shrink wrap machine and then put in a white case pack. Net weight: 82 oz. UPC 603812924900. Product must be stored frozen until use or refrigerated for up to 10 days. The cake is frosted with cream cheese frosting, coated in red velvet crumbs and then topped with White Chocolate Blossoms. The recalled cakes were frosted and decorated with red velvet crumbs and it appears as red velvet layered cheesecake on the outside, but the actual cake inside is carrot cake layers cheesecake. Upon opening up the cake walnut pieces would be visible and layers are distinguishable between the carrot and red velvet.
UPC
603812924900
Reason for recall
Undeclared walnut. Carrot Cake Layered Cheesecake was incorrectly decorated as Red Velvet Layered Cheesecake and was mis-labeled. Finished product label does not declare walnut.
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Product codes
Lot Code 2C162A0. Expiration date: June 10 2021.
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 5 weeks, from 25 June 2020 to termination on 30 July 2020. 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 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of cheese run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Cheese dominates Listeria recalls among dairy products because soft and semi-soft varieties hold enough moisture for the organism to grow at refrigeration temperature, and because most are eaten without any further cooking step.
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.
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.
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.
Recall records come from the openFDA food enforcement API, published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain. Krolda adds the hazard classification and the clause mapping; neither is an FDA determination. Always check the FDA notice before acting on a recall.
