BBU Fine Whole Wheat Flour Bulk-AA-50251, Bulk Tanker; SG Whole Wheat Fine Flour 2,000…
Ardent Mills, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 8 June 2022 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Potential to contain small pieces of stainless steel from a piece of milling equipment which was discovered during an investigative inspection of our system.
The record
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- Product
- BBU Fine Whole Wheat Flour Bulk-AA-50251, Bulk Tanker; SG Whole Wheat Fine Flour 2,000 lb. Tote-AA Storage instructions - Any product made from raw agricultural commodities, such as wheat, rye and other grains, may be subject to infestation if not properly inspected when received, handled, and stored. To reduce the risk of infestation, customer should ensure it has proper goods receiving inspection procedures, and should store the product in a clean, dry area that is well ventilated
- Reason for recall
- Potential to contain small pieces of stainless steel from a piece of milling equipment which was discovered during an investigative inspection of our system.
- Recalling firm
- Ardent Mills, LLC
- Firm location
- Denver, Colorado, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1090-2022
- Quantity
- 126,900 lbs. total
- Distribution
- CA, IA
- Initiated
- 18 May 2022
- Reported by FDA
- 8 June 2022
- Terminated
- 29 December 2022
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- BBU Fine WW Flour Bulk - 0083840839; SG WW Fine Flour Tote-AA - 918345; 918346
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 7 months, from 18 May 2022 to termination on 29 December 2022. 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 2 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 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 about typical 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, Iowa. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
Filed under grains, flour and pasta. A product can sit in more than one.
Other grains, flour and pasta recalls
These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. 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 Ardent Mills, LLC
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 9 other records name this firm.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-09 | Ardent Mills Hotel and Restaurant All Purpose Flour - AA, 50 lb. (22.68kg) bag, UPC 6 78008 00053 9, Ardent Mills, Denver, CO 80202. Milled in Alton, IL. | Ardent Mills, LLC | Raw, untreated flour tested positive for Salmonella. | Class II |
| 2020-02-26 | Kroger Unbleached All Purpose Enriched Flour, 5 lb. bag. Bar code: 011110861660 | Ardent Mills LLC | Product may be contaminated with Salmonella. | Class II |
| 2020-01-01 | Wild Harvest Organic Unbleached All Purpose Flour, Net Wt 5 lb. (2.26 kg) in paper bags, UPC 7 11535 50915 8, 8 bags per case. | Ardent Mills LLC | Wild Harvest Organic Unbleached All Purpose Flour in 5 lb. bags has the potential to be contaminated with E. coli (STEC). | Class II |
| 2019-02-27 | MEMBERS MARK SELF RISE FLR 25LB | Ardent Mills, LLC | Ardent Mills is voluntarily recalling certain lots of Self-Rising Flour because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. | Class II |
| 2019-02-27 | WESTCREEK H&R SELF RISE AP FLR 25LB and 50LB | Ardent Mills, LLC | Ardent Mills is voluntarily recalling certain lots of Self-Rising Flour because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. | Class II |
| 2019-02-27 | HILLTOP HEARTH SELF RISE FLR 25LB and 50LB | Ardent Mills, LLC | Ardent Mills is voluntarily recalling certain lots of Self-Rising Flour because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. | Class II |
| 2019-02-27 | ARDENT H&R SR FLR, 25LB, 50 LB, and 25LB (PC)-309951, packaged in paper bags, Store at Ambient Temperature | Ardent Mills, LLC | Ardent Mills is voluntarily recalling certain lots of Self-Rising Flour because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. | Class II |
| 2018-10-24 | Safeguard Soft Flr (GIV) packaged in 50 lb bags | Ardent Mills, LLC | Flour tested positive for Salmonella by customer. | Class II |
| 2017-07-19 | PRIMO MOLINO ITALIAN STYLE ENRICHED FLOUR, 50 lb, Packaged in paper bags, Store at Ambient Temperature, produced on 10/31/16, Product code 15031 | Ardent Mills, LLC | Primo Molino Italian Style Flour may be contaminated with E. coli O121. | Class I |
All 10 records for Ardent Mills, LLC
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