Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Choc Iced Custard Filled, 2 count boxes (UPC 0 72470 00000 2), 6…

krispy kreme doughnut corporation recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 22 March 2017 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product may contain foreign matter, metal pieces.

The record

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Product

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Choc Iced Custard Filled, 2 count boxes (UPC 0 72470 00000 2), 6 count boxes (UPC 0 72470 00206 8), Single served (UPC 004-06149-001).

UPC

072470000002

Reason for recall

Product may contain foreign matter, metal pieces.

Recalling firm

krispy kreme doughnut corporation

Firm location

Elk Grove Village, Illinois, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1610-2017

Quantity

1033 tjotal units

Distribution

DE, MD, NC and VA.

Initiated

7 February 2017

Reported by FDA

22 March 2017

Terminated

6 June 2017

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

Products produced on February 6, 2017.

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 4 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 4 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 4. All 4 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 4 months, from 7 February 2017 to termination on 6 June 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 4 states, and 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 shorter 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: Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, 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 bakery. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 4 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 3 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 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 krispy kreme doughnut corporation

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 20 other records name this firm.

All 21 records for krispy kreme doughnut corporation

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