GULF COAST BRAND METAIRIE COUNTRY CLUB SEASONED FLOUR, NET WEIGHT 50 lbs.
Gulf Coast Blenders, Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 4 March 2015 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Spice blends contain ground cumin which was recalled by Schiff Food Products due to the possible presence of peanut protein.
The record
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Product
GULF COAST BRAND METAIRIE COUNTRY CLUB SEASONED FLOUR, NET WEIGHT 50 lbs. (22.68 kg.), GULF COAST BLENDERS, INC., 7801 Townsend Place, New Orleans, LA 70126
Reason for recall
Spice blends contain ground cumin which was recalled by Schiff Food Products due to the possible presence of peanut protein.
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 6 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 6 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 6. All 6 of them are listed on this page.
The recall ran for 3 months, from 31 December 2014 to termination on 24 March 2015. 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 distribution pattern names 4 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 2 months 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: Louisiana, Alabama, Texas, California. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
The FDA opened 6 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 5 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.
Spice blends contain ground cumin which was recalled by Schiff Food Products due to the possible presence of peanut protein.
Class I
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.
Soba sauce packet, which contains bonito, sardine, and mackerel (fish), was packed into Sura Tanmen Hot and Sour Flavor ramen noodle package kit, but fish species are not declared on finished product label.
Behind every recall is a clause 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.
