Euro Custard Cake, Plastic wrapped cardboard container (Net Wt. 7.20 oz.)

Eastland Food Corporation recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 7 September 2016 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. The New York Department of Agriculture and Markets tested the Euro Custard Cake an detected that the product contained milk. The label did not declare milk and list it as an allergen on the label. Eastland Food Corporation became aware of these results on June 21 when FDA visited it facility. Eastland Food Corporation performed an investigation into the matter and determine late on June 22 that a single lot (310 cases) of product was missing this information. To this point no adverse incidents have been reported due to the mislabeling. Health risk assessment, people who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to milk run the risk of a serious or life threatening allergic reaction if they consume the affected Euro Custard Cakes under the mistaken assumption that it does not contain milk.

The record

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Product

Euro Custard Cake, Plastic wrapped cardboard container (Net Wt. 7.20 oz.)

Reason for recall

The New York Department of Agriculture and Markets tested the Euro Custard Cake an detected that the product contained milk. The label did not declare milk and list it as an allergen on the label. Eastland Food Corporation became aware of these results on June 21 when FDA visited it facility. Eastland Food Corporation performed an investigation into the matter and determine late on June 22 that a single lot (310 cases) of product was missing this information. To this point no adverse incidents have been reported due to the mislabeling. Health risk assessment, people who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to milk run the risk of a serious or life threatening allergic reaction if they consume the affected Euro Custard Cakes under the mistaken assumption that it does not contain milk.

Recalling firm

Eastland Food Corporation

Firm location

Jessup, Maryland, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-2024-2016

Quantity

a single lot (310 Cases)

Distribution

The cases in the lot were distributed to retailers in Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, Vermont, West Virginia.

Initiated

23 June 2016

Reported by FDA

7 September 2016

Terminated

21 October 2016

Firm notified by

Other

Product codes

Item Code: 240304; Best Before 5/25/2017

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

• Class 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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
• The recall ran for 4 months, from 23 June 2016 to termination on 21 October 2016. 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 2 months 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.

What this recall was for

The allergens named in this record: milk.

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 Eastland Food Corporation

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