Large Wheat Hamburger Buns, Valley Bakery, Rock Valley, IA, 12 count. UPC 290209304102…

Valley Bakery Wholesalers Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 3 May 2017 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Bakery products which contain an ingredient which contain egg do not declare egg on the label

The record

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Product

Large Wheat Hamburger Buns, Valley Bakery, Rock Valley, IA, 12 count. UPC 290209304102, packaged in clear plastic bags

UPC

290209304102

Reason for recall

Bakery products which contain an ingredient which contain egg do not declare egg on the label

Recalling firm

Valley Bakery Wholesalers Inc

Firm location

Rock Valley, Iowa, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-2117-2017

Quantity

14 retail packages

Distribution

Product distributed to northwest Iowa and southeast South Dakota

Initiated

18 March 2017

Reported by FDA

3 May 2017

Terminated

17 July 2017

Firm notified by

Telephone

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 27 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 27 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 27. All 27 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 4 months, from 18 March 2017 to termination on 17 July 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 7 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.

Filed under bakery. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 27 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 26 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

These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. 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 Valley Bakery Wholesalers Inc

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 26 other records name this firm.

All 27 records for Valley Bakery Wholesalers Inc

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