Sourdough Rye Bread, San Francisco Street Bakery brand, keep at ambient temperature.

San Francisco Street Bakery Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 19 August 2020 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. The firm used pan release spray, which contains soy lecithin, on equipment and finished products labels do not declare soy lecithin.

The record

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Product

Sourdough Rye Bread, San Francisco Street Bakery brand, keep at ambient temperature. Sold as an individual unit through on-site retail store bulk display, net weight unknown. No UPC.

Reason for recall

The firm used pan release spray, which contains soy lecithin, on equipment and finished products labels do not declare soy lecithin.

Recalling firm

San Francisco Street Bakery Inc.

Firm location

Olympia, Washington, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1334-2020

Quantity

2 units

Distribution

distributed in WA only.

Initiated

23 July 2020

Reported by FDA

19 August 2020

Terminated

27 August 2020

Firm notified by

Telephone

Product codes

Production dates July 6-7, 2020. No code or expiration date noted on the packages. Firm color codes tie closures representing the days of the week.

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 17 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 17 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 17. 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 17 of them.
• The recall ran for 5 weeks, from 23 July 2020 to termination on 27 August 2020. 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 shorter 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.

Filed under bakery. A product can sit in more than one.

Other bakery 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 San Francisco Street Bakery Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 16 other records name this firm.

All 17 records for San Francisco Street Bakery Inc.

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