Class IIITerminated · reported 2016-04-20

Dough base/premix packaged in 30-lb. poly-lined cardboard boxes, manufactured under the…

Heartland Products Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 20 April 2016 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Presence of high levels of Azodicarbonamide (ADA), failure to declare allergens on label, and potential cross-contamination with allergens.

The record

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Product: Dough base/premix packaged in 30-lb. poly-lined cardboard boxes, manufactured under the following labels: (1) Heartland Products, Inc. Fancy Breads Italian Base, 090108. Manufactured by Heartland Products, Inc., Des Moines, IA; and (2) Northern Lights Pizza, 090108, Manufactured by Heartland Products, Inc., Des Moines, IA.
Reason for recall: Presence of high levels of Azodicarbonamide (ADA), failure to declare allergens on label, and potential cross-contamination with allergens.
Recalling firm: Heartland Products Inc.
Firm location: Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Classification: Class III
Status: Terminated
Recall number: F-1075-2016
Quantity: (1) 24 - 30 lb. boxes and (2) 24- 30 lb. boxes
Distribution: Product was distributed in IA and IL. No foreign, military, or federal goverment distribution.
Initiated: 27 August 2015
Reported by FDA: 20 April 2016
Terminated: 14 April 2016
Firm notified by: Letter
Product codes: (1) G0601 and (2) G0301

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

Class III means the FDA judged that the product was unlikely to cause harm but violated FDA labelling or manufacturing regulation. 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 6 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 6 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 6. All 6 of them are listed on this page.
The recall ran for 8 months, from 27 August 2015 to termination on 14 April 2016. 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 8 months after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of a prepared meal or sandwich run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Prepared meals concentrate every other category's hazards into one package: they are assembled from many components, handled after any cook step, sold ready to eat, and carry an ingredient list long enough to lose an allergen in.

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 prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 6 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 5 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.

The other 5 records of FDA event 71942
Reported	Product	Firm	Reason	Class
2016-04-20	Waveland Pancake and Waffle Mix, 030608, packaged in 25-lb. poly-lined cardboard boxes, Manufactured Heartland Products, Inc. Des Moines, IA 50321.	Heartland Products Inc.	Presence of high levels of Azodicarbonamide (ADA), failure to declare allergens on label, and potential cross-contamination with allergens.	Class III
2016-04-20	ILL RIVER #14 Bread Base, 050102, packaged in 28-lb. poly-lined cardboard boxes, Distributed by T.S. Products, Inc.	Heartland Products Inc.	Presence of high levels of Azodicarbonamide (ADA), failure to declare allergens on label, and potential cross-contamination with allergens.	Class III
2016-04-20	ILL RIVER Sweet Dough Base, 050107, packaged in 50-lb. poly-lined cardboard boxes, Distributed by T.S. Products, Inc.	Heartland Products Inc.	Presence of high levels of Azodicarbonamide (ADA), failure to declare allergens on label, and potential cross-contamination with allergens.	Class III
2016-04-20	Turano Knead Dough Base, 70101, packaged in 42-lb. poly-lined cardboard boxes, Manufactured for Turano Baking Co., Bolingbrook, IL.	Heartland Products Inc.	Presence of high levels of Azodicarbonamide (ADA), failure to declare allergens on label, and potential cross-contamination with allergens.	Class III
2016-04-20	Heartland Products, Inc. Roma's Italian Base, 120116, packaged in 50-lb. poly-lined cardboard boxes, Manufactured by Heartland Products, Inc., Des Moines, IA.	Heartland Products Inc.	Presence of high levels of Azodicarbonamide (ADA), failure to declare allergens on label, and potential cross-contamination with allergens.	Class III

Other prepared meals and sandwiches 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.

Reported	Product	Firm	Reason	Class
2026-09-02	Sura Tanmen Hot and Sour Flavor Premium Japanese Noodles & Soup Base. Retail package net wt. 15.4oz. Product is ramen noodle kit which contains noodles and Soba soup packet. Item #05410 retail package, UPC 085315054108 Item #05410.1 cardboard box (12 packages per case), UPC 085315054105 Product is Perishable Frozen or Refrigerated and made by Sun Noodle Hawaii 1933 Colburn Street, Honolulu, HI	H & U Inc. dba Sun Noodle	Soba sauce packet, which contains bonito, sardine, and mackerel (fish), was packed into Sura Tanmen Hot and Sour Flavor ramen noodle package kit, but fish species are not declared on finished product label.	Class I
2026-08-12	Spicy Breakfast Burrito sold under the following brand names: FRESH & READY FOODS Spicy Breakfast Burrito Net Wt. 8.2 oz (232g) UPC 1 00001 00029 7 and Sprig & Sprout Spicy Breakfast Burrito IN A SPICY TORTILLA NET WEIGHT 8.3oz (234g) Contains: Egg, Milk, Wheat. MG Foods Charlotte, NC 28272	M.G. Foods, Inc.	Undeclared Soy. The firm received complaints of sausage in the burritos. Upon review the firm discovered the sausage contains soy which is not listed on the label.	Class I
2026-08-12	Blank Slate Creamery VEGAN NON-DAIRY FROZEN DESSERT COCONUT FUDGE SANDWICHES, 4.5 oz clear plastic package	Blank Slate Creamery Production	undeclared egg	Class I
2026-07-01	El David Gelee, Bonbons with fruits Soft & Juicy, 400g. Packaged in decorated paperboard box and covered entirely in transparent, flexible plastic wrap. (20 bonbon pieces per 400g box). UPC 5304000050757	Alb-USA Enterprises Inc	Undeclared colors (FD&C Yellow 5 and FD&C Red 40).	Class II
2026-06-17	Individual Unit Label (both lid and front of cup): Whole Foods Market Kitchens Minestrone Soup, VEGETARIAN NET WT 24 OZ (1 Lb 8OZ) 680g. Case Label: Whole Foods Global Minestrone Soup 702505, KEEP REFRIGERATED, Distributed by Whole Foods Market Austin, TX 78703. Eight (8)/ 24 oz. Cups (Net Wt. 12 LBS)/case.	Kettle Cuisine, LLC	Contains undeclared allergen (shrimp).	Class I
2026-06-17	Park St. Deli Macaroni & Cheese, NET WT 20 OZ (1 LB 4 OZ) 567g, product packed in plastic tub and placed into paperboard sleeve. 9/20 oz packages per case.	BEF Foods, Inc	Undeclared allergen (soy lecithin).	Class II
2026-06-10	UPC 21494500000 Ready Meals MEAL SALMON With LEMON CAPELLINI PASTA SS This is Albertson's store-made item and sold by unit at point of sale with grocery store's scale label.	Albertsons Companies LLC	Contains statement does not declare Salmon	Class III
2026-06-10	UPC 21788400000 Ready Meals SANDWICH TUNA SALAD CROISSANT SS COLD This is Albertson's store-made item and sold by unit at point of sale with grocery store's scale label.	Albertsons Companies LLC	Contains statement does not declare TUNA	Class III

Other records from Heartland Products Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 6 other records name this firm.

Reported	Product	Firm	Reason	Class
2016-04-20	Waveland Pancake and Waffle Mix, 030608, packaged in 25-lb. poly-lined cardboard boxes, Manufactured Heartland Products, Inc. Des Moines, IA 50321.	Heartland Products Inc.	Presence of high levels of Azodicarbonamide (ADA), failure to declare allergens on label, and potential cross-contamination with allergens.	Class III
2016-04-20	ILL RIVER #14 Bread Base, 050102, packaged in 28-lb. poly-lined cardboard boxes, Distributed by T.S. Products, Inc.	Heartland Products Inc.	Presence of high levels of Azodicarbonamide (ADA), failure to declare allergens on label, and potential cross-contamination with allergens.	Class III
2016-04-20	ILL RIVER Sweet Dough Base, 050107, packaged in 50-lb. poly-lined cardboard boxes, Distributed by T.S. Products, Inc.	Heartland Products Inc.	Presence of high levels of Azodicarbonamide (ADA), failure to declare allergens on label, and potential cross-contamination with allergens.	Class III
2016-04-20	Turano Knead Dough Base, 70101, packaged in 42-lb. poly-lined cardboard boxes, Manufactured for Turano Baking Co., Bolingbrook, IL.	Heartland Products Inc.	Presence of high levels of Azodicarbonamide (ADA), failure to declare allergens on label, and potential cross-contamination with allergens.	Class III
2016-04-20	Heartland Products, Inc. Roma's Italian Base, 120116, packaged in 50-lb. poly-lined cardboard boxes, Manufactured by Heartland Products, Inc., Des Moines, IA.	Heartland Products Inc.	Presence of high levels of Azodicarbonamide (ADA), failure to declare allergens on label, and potential cross-contamination with allergens.	Class III
2016-03-09	Heartland Flax 14 Mesh Brown RCM Flax Certified Organic, Net WT 50 lbs. Product packaged in 50 lb Food Grade Plastic bags.	Heartland Products, Inc.	Heartland Products Inc., has initiated a recall due to potential contamination with Salmonella involving Milled Flax.	Class I

All 7 records for Heartland Products Inc.

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