Craft Cake Flour (M4138), Net Wgt. 50 lbs. (22.68 kgs.), Mfg. By: Grain Craft…

Grain Craft, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 13 July 2016 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Possible Peanut Protein contamination.

The record

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Product

Craft Cake Flour (M4138), Net Wgt. 50 lbs. (22.68 kgs.), Mfg. By: Grain Craft, Birmingham, AL 35214.

Reason for recall

Possible Peanut Protein contamination.

Recalling firm

Grain Craft, Inc.

Firm location

Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1598-2016

Quantity

279,514 CWTS(bulk measure/1 CWT equals 100 lbs. e.g. 500 CWTS = 50,000 LBS).

Distribution

FL, GA, LA, MI, MO, NC, NJ, TN and TX.

Initiated

24 May 2016

Reported by FDA

13 July 2016

Terminated

19 January 2017

Firm notified by

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Product codes

SKU: 1524050, Lot codes: 416-21-020916, 450-21-041216, 57-21-033016, 100-21-020216, 400-21-031116, 527-21-031116, 504-21-040116, 150-21-033016, 587-21-041416.

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 15 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 15 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 15. 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 15 of them.
• The recall ran for 8 months, from 24 May 2016 to termination on 19 January 2017. 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 9 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 7 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a bakery product run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual 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.

Named in the distribution pattern: Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

Filed under bakery and grains, flour and pasta. A product can sit in more than one.

Other bakery 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.

Other records from Grain Craft, Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 14 other records name this firm.

All 15 records for Grain Craft, Inc.

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