1) EMPANADAS DE PINA (MEXICAN SWEET BREAD) IMPORTED BY EL CHARRO MEXICANTOWN BAKERY…

Mexicantown Wholesale recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 11 July 2012 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. The firm recalled 26 products for undeclared allergens. This product was recalled due to undeclared YELLOW #6.

The record

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Product

1) EMPANADAS DE PINA (MEXICAN SWEET BREAD) IMPORTED BY EL CHARRO MEXICANTOWN BAKERY DETROIT MI 48210 3.4oz 21-MAY-12, UPC: 9564000009 2) EMPANADAS DE PINA (MEXICAN SWEET BREAD/pain sucre) IMPORTED BY FIESTA WHOLESALE 226-440-3033 MY LITTLE MEXICO 3.4oz

UPC

95640000092

Reason for recall

The firm recalled 26 products for undeclared allergens. This product was recalled due to undeclared YELLOW #6.

Recalling firm

Mexicantown Wholesale

Firm location

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1701-2012

Quantity

1) 10 products; 2) 100 products (Canada distribution only)

Distribution

CANADA ONLY

Initiated

21 May 2012

Reported by FDA

11 July 2012

Terminated

19 November 2012

Firm notified by

Telephone

Product codes

1) All products distributed on 5/10/12 and 5/17/2012. 2) All products distributed on 5/9/12 and 5/16/12.

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 18 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 18 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 18. 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 18 of them.
• The recall ran for 6 months, from 21 May 2012 to termination on 19 November 2012. 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 7 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

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 Mexicantown Wholesale

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 28 other records name this firm.

All 29 records for Mexicantown Wholesale

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