King Arthur Unbleached Bread Flour, 5-lb. bag UPC 0-71012-04105-3
The King Arthur Flour Company, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 20 March 2013 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Foreign material
The record
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- Product
- King Arthur Unbleached Bread Flour, 5-lb. bag UPC 0-71012-04105-3
- UPC
- 071012041053
- Reason for recall
- Foreign material
- Recalling firm
- The King Arthur Flour Company, Inc.
- Firm location
- Norwich, Vermont, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1196-2013
- Quantity
- 63272/5 Lb
- Distribution
- Nationwide
- Initiated
- 22 February 2013
- Reported by FDA
- 20 March 2013
- Terminated
- 3 September 2013
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Best Used By/ ot Code 12/26/2013 L12A26A; 12/26/2013 L12A26B; 01/03/2014 A13A03A; 01/03/2014 A13A03B; 01/16/2014 A13A16B; 01/17/2014 A13A17A; 01/23/2014 A13A23A; 01/28/2014 A13A28A; 01/31/2014 A13A31A.
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. Every product code in this event is listed together on the record that covers the whole recall, which is the page a search engine is pointed to for all 2 of them.
- The recall ran for 6 months, from 22 February 2013 to termination on 3 September 2013. 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 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a bakery product run a median of 6 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Bakery is overwhelmingly an allergen category rather than a pathogen one: baking is a kill step, but a bakery runs many recipes down shared lines, so the failure that recalls a bakery product is usually a label or a changeover.
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 bakery and grains, flour and pasta. A product can sit in more than one.
Other bakery 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 The King Arthur Flour Company, Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-04-11 | King Arthur Flour, 100% Organic, Finely Ground, Coconut Flour, UPC 0 71012 10702 5, Distributed by: The King Arthur Flour Co., Inc., Norwich, Vermont 05055 Product of the Philippines and/or Sri Lanka. | The King Arthur Flour Company, Inc. | Coconut flour tested positive for Salmonella. | Class I |
| 2013-03-20 | King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour, 5-lb. bag UPC 0-71012-01050-9 | The King Arthur Flour Company, Inc. | Foreign material | Class II |
All 3 records for The King Arthur Flour Company, Inc.
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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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