Class ITerminated · reported 2022-07-13

GE 29765500000 Cupcake 6 Buckeye 18Oz

Giant Eagle recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 13 July 2022 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Products were made with Jiff Peanut Butter and have the potential for Salmonella Contamination.

The record

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Product: GE 29765500000 Cupcake 6 Buckeye 18Oz
Reason for recall: Products were made with Jiff Peanut Butter and have the potential for Salmonella Contamination.
Recalling firm: Giant Eagle
Firm location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Classification: Class I
Status: Terminated
Recall number: F-1399-2022
Quantity: 14 Units
Distribution: The product was distributed domestically to the following State: PA
Initiated: 23 May 2022
Reported by FDA: 13 July 2022
Terminated: 3 November 2022
Firm notified by: Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes: 29765500000 Cupcake 6 Buckeye 18Oz

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

Class I means the FDA judged a reasonable probability that the product would cause serious health consequences or death. 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 11 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 11 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 11. 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 11 of them.
The recall ran for 5 months, from 23 May 2022 to termination on 3 November 2022. 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 7 weeks after the firm began the recall.
The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.

What this recall was for

Salmonella

Salmonella is a bacterium that survives in low-moisture foods for months, which is why it appears in recalls of products that carry no water for it to grow in: nut butters, spices, flour and dry pet food.

A preventive controls plan covers Salmonella contamination 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 117.135(c)(1): Process controls: the controls that apply a treatment, such as a validated kill step, at the point where it reduces the hazard to a safe level.
21 CFR 117 subpart G: Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
21 CFR 117.165(a)(2): Product testing: testing as a verification activity, appropriate to the facility, the food and the nature of the preventive control.

Other records from Giant Eagle

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 70 other records name this firm.

Reported	Product	Firm	Reason	Class
2022-07-13	GE Bakery, Gob, Mini, Chocolate, Peanut Butter Icing	Giant Eagle	Products were made with Jiff Peanut Butter and have the potential for Salmonella Contamination.	Class I
2022-07-13	GE 24777800000 Brownie Classic Peanut Bttr 8c , 14Oz	Giant Eagle	Products were made with Jiff Peanut Butter and have the potential for Salmonella Contamination.	Class I
2022-07-13	GE 25022900000 Peanut Butter Fudge Bar Cake 22.6 Oz	Giant Eagle	Products were made with Jiff Peanut Butter and have the potential for Salmonella Contamination.	Class I
2022-07-13	GE 25115700000 Bakery, Cake, Peanut Butter Fudge Split 25.6 Oz	Giant Eagle	Products were made with Jiff Peanut Butter and have the potential for Salmonella Contamination.	Class I
2022-07-13	GE 25135900000 Bakery, Brownie, Peanut Butter Creme 16Oz	Giant Eagle	Products were made with Jiff Peanut Butter and have the potential for Salmonella Contamination.	Class I
2022-07-13	GE Bakery, Cookie, Thumbprint, Peanut Butter, 12 Oz., Clam Shell	Giant Eagle	Products were made with Jiff Peanut Butter and have the potential for Salmonella Contamination.	Class I
2022-07-13	GE 25136000000 Bakery, Cake, Chocolate, Peanut Butter Iced 8Oz 4	Giant Eagle	Products were made with Jiff Peanut Butter and have the potential for Salmonella Contamination.	Class I
2022-07-13	GE 23984200000 Torte Peanut Butter 62Oz	Giant Eagle	Products were made with Jiff Peanut Butter and have the potential for Salmonella Contamination.	Class I
2022-07-13	GE 22777900000 Brownie Tray Classic - 24 Ct., 24Oz	Giant Eagle	Products were made with Jiff Peanut Butter and have the potential for Salmonella Contamination.	Class I
2022-07-13	GE 22985000000 Petite Cake Peanut Butter 18Oz	Giant Eagle	Products were made with Jiff Peanut Butter and have the potential for Salmonella Contamination.	Class I

All 71 records for Giant Eagle

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21 CFR 117.135(c)(1) 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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