Billion Dollar Brownie Mix, 28.3 oz glass jar, 6/case
Brand Castle LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 31 July 2019 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Firm's supplier notified them of potential E.coli contamination in flour they received.
The record
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- Product
- Billion Dollar Brownie Mix, 28.3 oz glass jar, 6/case
- Reason for recall
- Firm's supplier notified them of potential E.coli contamination in flour they received.
- Recalling firm
- Brand Castle LLC
- Firm location
- Bedford Heights, Ohio, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1584-2019
- Quantity
- 66 cases
- Distribution
- Distributed in Ohio, Alabama, New York, South Carolina, Minnesota, Missouri, Utah, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska.
- Initiated
- 17 June 2019
- Reported by FDA
- 31 July 2019
- Terminated
- 4 December 2019
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Lot# 31OCT2019BC8324, Exp 10/31/19
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 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. 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 6 of them.
- The recall ran for 6 months, from 17 June 2019 to termination on 4 December 2019. 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 6 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a bakery product run a median of 6 months, so this one was about typical 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.
What this recall was for
E. coli
Shiga toxin-producing E. coli recalls concentrate in foods eaten raw or lightly cooked, where no step in the process is hot enough or long enough to be a kill step.
A preventive controls plan covers E. coli 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 120
- Juice HACCP: the hazard analysis and critical control point system required for juice processors, including a treatment achieving a 5-log pathogen reduction.
Filed under bakery. A product can sit in more than one.
Other bakery 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 Brand Castle LLC
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 6 other records name this firm.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-07-31 | Chocolate Mint Chip Cookie Mix, 27.1 oz glass jar, 6/case | Brand Castle LLC | Firm's supplier notified them of potential E.coli contamination in flour they received. | Class I |
| 2019-07-31 | The Grinch Sugar Cookie Mix with Sprinkles, 22.3 oz glass jar, 6/case | Brand Castle LLC | Firm's supplier notified them of potential E.coli contamination in flour they received. | Class I |
| 2019-07-31 | Hot Cocoa Cookie Mix, 22.9 oz glass jar, 6/case | Brand Castle LLC | Firm's supplier notified them of potential E.coli contamination in flour they received. | Class I |
| 2019-07-31 | Million Dollar Cookie Mix, 28.9 oz glass jar, 6/case | Brand Castle LLC | Firm's supplier notified them of potential E.coli contamination in flour they received. | Class I |
| 2019-07-31 | Arctic Chill Chocolate Mint Cookie Mix, 27.1 oz glass jar, 6/case | Brand Castle LLC | Firm's supplier notified them of potential E.coli contamination in flour they received. | Class I |
| 2017-01-18 | In The Mix¿ Monkey Bread Mix NET WT 16 oz (16 lb) 454 g box, INGREDIENTS: BREAD MIX: ***BUTTERMILK*** DISTRIBUTED BY BRAND CASTLE, LLC BEDFORD HTS, OH 44146 www.brandcastle.com UPC 8 44527 03278 2 | Brand Castle LLC | The firm was notified by one of their ingredient suppliers that their facility and finished product test positive for Salmonella. | Class II |
All 7 records for Brand Castle LLC
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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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