Hostess Raspberry Zingers, Raspberry Iced Cake With Creamy Fillling, packaged in the…
Hostess Brands, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 19 August 2020 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product potentially has mold prior to best by date.
The record
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Product
Hostess Raspberry Zingers, Raspberry Iced Cake With Creamy Fillling, packaged in the following ways: 1) in boxes containing 10 cakes Net Wt. 13.4 OZ (380 g) UPC 88109110604 and 2) in clear plastic bags containing 3 cakes Net Wt. 4.02 OZ (114 g) UPC 888109010089
UPC
88109110604
Reason for recall
Product potentially has mold prior to best by date.
Distributed nationwide to retail and wholesale food stores
Initiated
2 July 2020
Reported by FDA
19 August 2020
Terminated
11 January 2021
Firm notified by
Letter
Product codes
10 pack: H061224000, Best By 8/26/2020, H06132400, Best By 8/27/2020, H061424000, Best By 8/28/2020, H0161524000, Best By 8/29/2020 (also available frozen without a best by date); 3 pack: H061224000, Best By 8/26/2020, H06132400, Best By 8/27/2020, H061424000, Best By 8/28/2020, (also available frozen with no best by date), H0161524000 (frozen, no best by date);
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 6 months, from 2 July 2020 to termination on 11 January 2021. 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 7 weeks after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Fresh produce is the category where contamination arrives before the facility does: irrigation water, soil amendments and field workers are the routes, and nothing downstream of the farm is a kill step for a product eaten raw.
A spoilage recall means the food degraded before its date: mould growth, unintended fermentation, swelling or rancidity, usually traced to a seal, a formulation or a storage temperature.
A preventive controls plan covers spoilage 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 117.93
Warehousing and distribution: storage and transport under conditions that protect food against contamination and against deterioration of the food and its container.
21 CFR 117.80(b)(3)
Time and temperature: holding food at temperatures that do not allow microorganisms to grow, and for no longer than the process allows.
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 117.93 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.
