Martha White Gluten Free Sweet Yellow Cornbread & Muffin Mix packaged in a 7oz. pouch.
Hometown Food Company recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 18 September 2019 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product tested positive for gluten but is labeled as Gluten free
The record
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- Product
- Martha White Gluten Free Sweet Yellow Cornbread & Muffin Mix packaged in a 7oz. pouch. 12 pouches per wholesale case. Item UPC: 0 1330082014 8.
- UPC
- 013300820148
- Reason for recall
- Product tested positive for gluten but is labeled as Gluten free
- Recalling firm
- Hometown Food Company
- Firm location
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-2121-2019
- Quantity
- 374 cases
- Distribution
- Distribution centers in the following states for two nationwide retailers: CO FL GA NC NJ OH TN VA WI
- Initiated
- 26 August 2019
- Reported by FDA
- 18 September 2019
- Terminated
- 30 April 2020
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- Lot codes 9 204 and 9 205. Best if Used by Dates JAN 23 2021 and JAN 24 2021.
Reading this record
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- 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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 8 months, from 26 August 2019 to termination on 30 April 2020. 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 weeks 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. A product can sit in more than one.
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 Hometown Food Company
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-10 | Birch Benders Sweet Potato Pancake and Waffle Mix 12oz bag, UPC 8 1000156076 8, 6 bags per case | Hometown Food Company | Undeclared egg | Class I |
| 2020-09-16 | Arrowhead Mills Organic Yellow Popcorn, 28oz bag, UPC: 0 7433347665 8, 6 retail bags per wholesale case, case item code 1 7433347665 9 | Hometown Food Company | Potential for foreign material (glass) in finished product. | Class II |
| 2019-04-03 | Pillsbury Unbleached All Purpose Flour Enriched 5Lb paper bag retail. 8 bags per shrink wrapped bale wholesale. UPC "0 5150022241 6" - retail unit UPC "0 5150022241 3" - wholesale bale | Hometown Food Company | Product may be contaminated with Salmonella | Class II |
All 4 records for Hometown Food Company
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