Sara Lee 12 Grain Bread Hearty & Delicious, 24 OZ (1LB 8OZ) 680g

Bimbo Bakeries Usa recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 27 March 2013 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Firm has initiated a voluntary recall due to the possible presence of flexible wire caused by a faulty screen at a third party flour mill that supplied flour used in the manufacture of the recalled products.

The record

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Product

Sara Lee 12 Grain Bread Hearty & Delicious, 24 OZ (1LB 8OZ) 680g

Reason for recall

Firm has initiated a voluntary recall due to the possible presence of flexible wire caused by a faulty screen at a third party flour mill that supplied flour used in the manufacture of the recalled products.

Recalling firm

Bimbo Bakeries Usa

Firm location

Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1218-2013

Quantity

N/A

Distribution

Nationwide distribution.

Initiated

19 February 2013

Reported by FDA

27 March 2013

Terminated

15 January 2014

Firm notified by

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Product codes

Best by dates prior to and including Feb 17

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 13 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 13 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 13. 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 13 of them.
• The recall ran for 11 months, from 19 February 2013 to termination on 15 January 2014. 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 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a bakery product run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual 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

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 Bimbo Bakeries Usa

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 36 other records name this firm.

All 37 records for BIMBO Bakeries USA

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