Iced Devil's Food cake with creamy filling, packaged as Hostess Zingers in 10-ct…
Hostess Brands, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 21 September 2016 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product is manufactured with flour known to contain peanut allergen and is not labeled to contain peanuts.
The record
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- Product
- Iced Devil's Food cake with creamy filling, packaged as Hostess Zingers in 10-ct multi-packs of individual cakes, net wt. 12.70oz (360 g), UPC 888109110581; 6-ct. single serving fun size snack packs, individual pack net wt. 2.55 oz (72 g), UPC 888109010027;with the responsible firm name on the label is Hostess Brands LLC, Kansas City, MO 64141; and Dolly Zingers in 6-ct. single serving packs, 3 cakes per pack net wt. 3.81 oz. (108g), the responsible name on the label is Hostess Brands, LLC, Kansas City, MO 64141
- UPC
- 888109110581
- Reason for recall
- Product is manufactured with flour known to contain peanut allergen and is not labeled to contain peanuts.
- Recalling firm
- Hostess Brands, LLC
- Firm location
- Kansas City, Missouri, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-2115-2016
- Quantity
- 653,724 units
- Distribution
- Nationwide distribution. No foreign or military/government distribution.
- Initiated
- 3 June 2016
- Reported by FDA
- 21 September 2016
- Terminated
- 1 December 2017
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- batch and best buy date per UPC: UPC 888109110581: D040124000, best by 6/5/2016; D040824000, best by 6/12/2016; D040924000, best by 6/13/2016; and UPC 88810930036/888109010058/888109000202/888109000356: D040124000, best by 6/5/2016; D040824000, best by 6/12/2016; D040924000, best by 6/13/2016;
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 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 18 months, from 3 June 2016 to termination on 1 December 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 FDA published the enforcement report 4 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.
Filed under bakery and snacks and confectionery. A product can sit in more than one.
Other bakery recalls
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Other records from Hostess Brands, LLC
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 22 other records name this firm.
All 23 records for Hostess Brands, LLC
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