Hamburger Buns soled under the brand names of: 7-ELEVEN 8CT, UPC 52548 00660 0; BRAVO…
FLOWERS FOODS recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 31 July 2019 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. The products have the potential to contain small pieces of hard plastic introduced during production process.
The record
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- Product
- Hamburger Buns soled under the brand names of: 7-ELEVEN 8CT, UPC 52548 00660 0; BRAVO 8CT, UPC 33755 85868 8; CBC NATHANS 8CT, UPC 72250 09366 8; CLOVER VALLEY 8CT, UPC 70210 00759 5; FAMILY STYLE 8CT, UPC 72250 02473 0; FOOD DEPOT 8CT, UPC 72250 02440 2; GREAT VALUE 8CT, UPC 78742 22375 9; GRISSOM'S MILL 8CT, UPC 51933 26740 4; HITCHCOCK'S 8CT, UPC 70210 10337 2; HOME PRIDE 16CT, UPC 72250 00658 3; IDEAL 8CT, UPC 72250 02507 2; IGA 8CT, UPC 41270 02548 5; LAURA LYNN 8CT, UPC 86854 00780 8; MARKET PANTRY 8CT, UPC 85239 03163 6; MEMBERS MARK 8CT/3 PK, UPC 93968 01393 6; NATURAL GRAIN 8CT, UPC 73105 92058 0; OVEN FRESH 8CT, UPC 72250 02471 6; PIGGLY WIGGLY 8CT, UPC 41290 01317 2; PUBLIX 8CT, UPC 41415 30690 5; SE GROCERS 8CT, UPC 38259 10182 7; SEDANO'S 8CT, UPC 72250 00031 4; SUNBEAM 8CT, UPC 77633 06328 3; WM 8CT HAMBURGER BUNS (PAN PARA SANDWICH), UPC 78742 04868 0 & WONDER 8CT, UPC 72250 02109 8.
- UPC
- 52548006600
- Reason for recall
- The products have the potential to contain small pieces of hard plastic introduced during production process.
- Recalling firm
- FLOWERS FOODS
- Firm location
- Thomasville, Georgia, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Completed
- Recall number
- F-1601-2019
- Quantity
- 47,878 packages
- Distribution
- Product was shipped to the following states: AL, AR, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MO, MS, NC, OH, SC, TN, TX, VA & WV.
- Initiated
- 9 July 2019
- Reported by FDA
- 31 July 2019
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- IGA 8CT, Lot #111 & Lot #180, Best By Date July 19 2019 7-ELEVEN 8CT, BRAVO 8CT, CBC NATHANS 8CT, GRISSOM'S MILL 8CT, HITCHCOCK'S 8CT, HOME PRIDE 16CT, MEMBERS MARK 8CT/3 PK, NATURAL GRAIN 8CT, PIGGLY WIGGLY 8CT, SEDANO'S 8CT, WM 8CT HAMBURGER BUNS (PAN PARA SANDWICH) & WONDER 8CT - Lot #111, Best By Date July 18 2019; CLOVER VALLEY 8CT, FAMILY STYLE 8CT, MARKET PANTRY 8CT, OVEN FRESH 8CT, PUBLIX 8CT & SE GROCERS 8CT, Lot #111, Best By Date July 18, 2019 and Lot #180, Best By Date July 19 2019 FOOD DEPOT 8CT, GREAT VALUE 8CT, IDEAL 8CT, LAURA LYNN 8CT & SUNBEAM 8CT, Lot #180, Best By Date July 19 2019
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 12 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 12 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 12. All 12 of them are listed on this page.
- 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 15 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas. 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
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 and prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 12 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 11 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.
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 FLOWERS FOODS
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 16 other records name this firm.
All 17 records for FLOWERS FOODS
All 2019 recalls · All FDA food recall data
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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