Big J All Purpose Flour Unbleached Flour; packaged in plastic 5lb bags. 4 bags per case.
Big J Mill & Elevator Company, Incorporated recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 9 August 2023 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Flour may have filth.
The record
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- Product
- Big J All Purpose Flour Unbleached Flour; packaged in plastic 5lb bags. 4 bags per case.
- Reason for recall
- Flour may have filth.
- Recalling firm
- Big J Mill & Elevator Company, Incorporated
- Firm location
- Brigham City, Utah, United States
- Classification
- Class III
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1306-2023
- Quantity
- 420 cases
- Distribution
- Product distributed to consignees in Utah
- Initiated
- 11 July 2023
- Reported by FDA
- 9 August 2023
- Terminated
- 14 August 2023
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- Lot Numbers 050124, 052324, 052524, 062024 Case numbers WU-0857177, WU-0887282
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 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 5 weeks, from 11 July 2023 to termination on 14 August 2023. 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 grain, flour or pasta product run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter than usual 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.
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 Big J Mill & Elevator Company, Incorporated
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-09 | Golden Loaf Bakers Flour Unbleached Flour; packaged in plastic 5lb bags. 4 bags per case. | Big J Mill & Elevator Company, Incorporated | Flour may have filth. | Class III |
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