Food Service Hamburger Buns Wheat with Oat 12 CT Earthgrains Baking companies, Inc.

BIMBO Bakeries USA recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 3 July 2013 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Due to the possible presence of metal fragments caused by a faulty manufacturing part at a North Carolina bakery

The record

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Product

Food Service Hamburger Buns Wheat with Oat 12 CT Earthgrains Baking companies, Inc. Horsham, PA 19044

Reason for recall

Due to the possible presence of metal fragments caused by a faulty manufacturing part at a North Carolina bakery

Recalling firm

BIMBO Bakeries USA

Firm location

Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1569-2013

Quantity

12

Distribution

NC, SC, TN, VA

Initiated

10 May 2013

Reported by FDA

3 July 2013

Terminated

21 February 2014

Firm notified by

Press Release

Product codes

Best By Date 5 - 21

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 20 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 20 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 20. 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 20 of them.
• The recall ran for 9 months, from 10 May 2013 to termination on 21 February 2014. 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 8 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 longer 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: North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

What this recall was for

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.

Other records from BIMBO Bakeries USA

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 36 other records name this firm.

All 37 records for BIMBO Bakeries USA

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