Chocolate Frosted Mini Donuts, packaged in 6-20ct and 9ct bags of mini donuts as Hostess…
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
- Chocolate Frosted Mini Donuts, packaged in 6-20ct and 9ct bags of mini donuts as Hostess Donettes Frosted Mini Donuts, net wt. 11.25oz, UPC 888109150020; packaged in 9ct bags of mini donuts as Hostess Donettes Frosted Mini Donuts, net wt. 14.07oz, UPC 888109110239; packaged in 6ct single serve packages as Dolly Madison Chocolate Mini Donuts, net wt. 3oz, UPC 888109300067; packaged in 6ct single serve packages as Hostess Donettes Frosted Mini Donuts, net wt. 3oz, UPC 888109050023; the most responsible firm name on the label is Hostess Brands, LLC, Kansas City, MO 64141
- UPC
- 888109150020
- 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-2118-2016
- Quantity
- 1,426,814 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 by dates per UPC code: UPC 888109110239: D032021000, best by 5/24/2016 D032121000, best by 5/25/2016 UPC 888109300067: D032121000, best by 5/25/2016 UPC 888109050023: D032121000, best by 5/25/2016 UPC 888109150020: D031821000, best by 5/22/2016 D031821001, best by 6/22/2016 D031824001, best by 6/29/2016 D031921000, best by 5/23/2016 D031924000, best by 6/29/2016 D032021000, best by 5/24/2016 D032024000, best by 6/29/2016 D041124000, best by 6/15/2016 D041224000, best by 6/16/2016 D031824000, best by 5/22/2016 D032124000, best by 5/25/2016 D032224000, best by 5/26/2016 D032324000, best by 5/27/2016 D032424000, best by 5/28/2016 D032424001, best by 6/22/2016 D032524000, best by 6/22/2016 D032524001, best by 6/22/2016 D032624001, best by 6/22/2016 D032824000, best by 6/1/2016 D032924000, best by 6/2/2016 D040821000, best by 6/12/2016 D041224000, best by 6/16/2016 D041324000, best by 6/17/2016 D041324001, best by 6/29/2016 D041424000, best by 6/29/2016 D032121000, best by 5/25/2016
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. All 11 of them are listed on this page.
- 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.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 11 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 10 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 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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