Sara Lee Thin Style Buns, 100% Multi-Grain, 1.5 oz., Goglanian Bakeries Product Code…
Rich Products Corp recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 13 March 2013 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. The product was manufactured with bulk flour supplied by Dakota Specialty Milling. Dakota Specialty Milling is recalling the bulk flour because of reports of metal fragments (stainless steel) caused by a faulty mesh screen.
The record
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- Product
- Sara Lee Thin Style Buns, 100% Multi-Grain, 1.5 oz., Goglanian Bakeries Product Code 77474, UPC 072945611788 --- The product is packaged in a plastic bag with a green bag clip. There are 8 buns per retail package (plastic bag) and there are 18 bags per tray.
- UPC
- 072945611788
- Reason for recall
- The product was manufactured with bulk flour supplied by Dakota Specialty Milling. Dakota Specialty Milling is recalling the bulk flour because of reports of metal fragments (stainless steel) caused by a faulty mesh screen.
- Recalling firm
- Rich Products Corp
- Firm location
- Buffalo, New York, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1053-2013
- Quantity
- Sara Lee Buns: 17,238 cases
- Distribution
- CA, CO, TX, UT, SC, NC, WA, NM
- Initiated
- 13 February 2013
- Reported by FDA
- 13 March 2013
- Terminated
- 17 May 2018
- Firm notified by
- Letter
- Product codes
- Production Date Green Bag Clip Code 7/24/12 G01206Gxx* 8/1/12 G01214Gxx* 8/6/12 G01219Gxx* 8/30/12 G01243Gxx* 9/26/12 G01270Gxx* 10/17/12 G01291Gxx* 11/28/12 G01333Gxx* 12/16/12 G01351Gxx* 12/31/12 G01366Gxx* 1/18/13 G01018Gxx* (*xx denotes the hour of production and will be represented by two numeric digits (e.g. 09 would mean 9:00 a.m. production hour).
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 2 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 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. All 2 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 5.3 years, from 13 February 2013 to termination on 17 May 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 distribution pattern names 8 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a grain, flour or pasta product run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: California, Colorado, Texas, Utah, South Carolina, North Carolina, Washington, New Mexico. 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
Foreign material
A foreign material recall means something that is not food was found in food: metal, plastic, glass, wood or insect matter, usually shed by equipment during processing.
A preventive controls plan covers foreign material 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 117.40
- Equipment and utensils: plant equipment designed and maintained so it cannot contaminate food with lubricants, fuel, metal fragments or contaminated water.
- 21 CFR 117.80(c)
- Manufacturing operations: the measures that protect food from contamination during processing, including the effective ones against metal and other extraneous material.
- 21 CFR 117.150
- Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.
Filed under grains, flour and pasta. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 2 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 1 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.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-03-13 | Daphne's California 6 inch Multigrain Flatbread, 2.1 oz., Product Code 77468, Net Wt. 13.50 lbs. (case) --- There are 12 - 10 count bags per case | Rich Products Corp | The product was manufactured with bulk flour supplied by Dakota Specialty Milling. Dakota Specialty Milling is recalling the bulk flour because of reports of metal fragments (stainless steel) caused by a faulty mesh screen. | Class II |
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 Rich Products Corp
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 21 other records name this firm.
All 22 records for Rich Products Corp
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21 CFR 117.40 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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