Fancy Buckwheat Flour, Item #327, 50 lbs. net wt, Packed by Min-Dak Growers Grand Forks…
Minn Dak Growers, Ltd. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 24 August 2022 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Foreign Material - plastic
The record
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- Product
- Fancy Buckwheat Flour, Item #327, 50 lbs. net wt, Packed by Min-Dak Growers Grand Forks, ND - Product of the USA. Manufactured for Enjoy Life Foods.
- Reason for recall
- Foreign Material - plastic
- Recalling firm
- Minn Dak Growers, Ltd.
- Firm location
- Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Ongoing
- Recall number
- F-1561-2022
- Quantity
- 40,000 lbs.
- Distribution
- IN
- Initiated
- 18 July 2022
- Reported by FDA
- 24 August 2022
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- Lot: 010622, Expiration Date: 01-10-24 and Lot : 011022, Expiration Date 01-06-24
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- This recall has no termination date on the record, so as published it had not been terminated under 21 CFR 7.55.
- The distribution pattern names 1 state, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- 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.
What this recall was for
Foreign material
A foreign material recall means something that is not food was found in food: metal, plastic, glass, wood or insect matter, usually shed by equipment during processing.
A preventive controls plan covers foreign material 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 117.40
- Equipment and utensils: plant equipment designed and maintained so it cannot contaminate food with lubricants, fuel, metal fragments or contaminated water.
- 21 CFR 117.80(c)
- Manufacturing operations: the measures that protect food from contamination during processing, including the effective ones against metal and other extraneous material.
- 21 CFR 117.150
- Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.
Filed under grains, flour and pasta. A product can sit in more than one.
Other grains, flour and pasta 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.
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21 CFR 117.40 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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