Lemon Sugar Cookies

Butter Creek Farms, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 9 April 2014 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Butter Creek Farms, Inc. is recalling Lemon Sugar Cookies due to undeclared Wheat and Egg. The firm sold single product or combined this product with other products in gift boxes from the website http://cowchipcookies.com/index.htm.

The record

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Product

Lemon Sugar Cookies

Reason for recall

Butter Creek Farms, Inc. is recalling Lemon Sugar Cookies due to undeclared Wheat and Egg. The firm sold single product or combined this product with other products in gift boxes from the website http://cowchipcookies.com/index.htm.

Recalling firm

Butter Creek Farms, Inc.

Firm location

Kent, Washington, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1734-2014

Quantity

unknown

Distribution

sold to internet customers from the website cowchipcookies.com and at two retail stores owned by recalling firm in WA.

Initiated

31 December 2013

Reported by FDA

9 April 2014

Terminated

24 September 2014

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

none

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 11 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 11 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 11. 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 11 of them.
• The recall ran for 9 months, from 31 December 2013 to termination on 24 September 2014. 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 3 months 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.

What this recall was for

The allergens named in this record: wheat, eggs.

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 Butter Creek Farms, Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 10 other records name this firm.

All 11 records for Butter Creek Farms, Inc.

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