Class ITerminated · reported 2016-09-21

2 lb Gold Medal All Purpose Flour Case UPC 000-16000-10720 Package UPC 000-16000-10710…

General Mills, Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 21 September 2016 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. General Mills is recalling a number of products because of a multistate outbreak of E. coli O121 that may be potentially linked to Gold Medal flour, Wondra flour, and Signature Kitchens flour. To date, E. coli O121 has not been found in any General Mills flour products or in the flour manufacturing facility and the company has not been contacted directly by any consumer reporting confirmed illnesses related to these products.

The record

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Product: 2 lb Gold Medal All Purpose Flour Case UPC 000-16000-10720 Package UPC 000-16000-10710 Recalled Better If Used By Dates 25MAY2017KC, 26MAY2017KC, 27MAY2017KC, 28MAY2017KC, 29MAY2017KC, 30MAY2017KC, 31MAY2017KC, 01JUN2017KC, 02JUN2017KC, and 03JUN2017KC Expanded recall: 15MAY2017KC through 24MAY2017KC, 04JUN2017KC, 05JUN2017KC, 11JUN2017KC, 12JUN2017KC, 13JUN2017KC, 14JUN2017KC Expanded recall #2: 7-25-16 Recalled Better if Used by Dates 18JUN2017KC, 01AUG2017KC, 13AUG2017KC through 21AUG2017KC 10 lb Gold Medal All Purpose Flour Case UPC 000-16000-12410 Package UPC 000-16000-10410 Recalled Better If Used By Dates 02JUN2017KC, 03JUN2017KC Expanded Recall: 16MAY2017KC through 20MAY2017KC, 05JUN2017KC Expanded Recall: 7-25-16 Recalled Better if Used by Dates 18JUN2017KC, 01AUG2017KC. 5 lb Gold Medal All Purpose Flour Case UPC 000-16000-12610 Package UPC 000-16000-10610 Recalled Better If Used By Dates 25MAY2017KC, 27MAY2017KC, 28MAY2017KC, 29MAY2017KC, 30MAY2017KC, 31MAY2017KC, 01JUN2017KC, 03JUN2017KC, 04JUN2017KC, 05JUN2017KC, 11JUN2017KC, 12JUN2017KC, 13JUN2017KC, 14JUN2017KC Expanded Recall: 15MAY2017KC through 24MAY2017KC. Expanded Recall #2: 7-25-16 Recalled Better if Used by Dates 18JUN2017KC, 01AUG2017KC, 13AUG2017KC through 21AUG2017KC 10 lb Gold Medal All Purpose Flour- Banded Pack Case UPC 000-16000-21294 Package UPC 000-16000-10410 Recalled Better If Used By Dates 03JUN2017KC, 04JUN2017KC, 05JUN2017KC. 25 lb Jetro Lenz Best All Purpose Flour Unit UPC 60695-00295 Code Dates/Production Dates 16NOV2015KC, 17NOV2015KC Expanded: 13NOV2015KC, 14NOV2015KC, 04DEC2015KC 50 lb Jetro Chef's Quality All Purpose Flour Unit UPC 60695-02575 Code Dates/Production Dates 19NOV5KC Expanded: 07NOV2015KC, 04NOV2015KC, 05NOV2015KC, 02DEC2015KC Expanded Recall: 4.25lb Gold Medal All Purpose Flour Package UPC 000-16000-12670, Case UPC 100-16000-12670, Recalled Better if Used by Dates 21MAY2017KC, 03JUN2017KC. Expanded Recall #2 7-25-16 Recalled Better if Used by Dates 01AUG2017KC, 19AUG2017KC, 20AUG2017KC, 21AUG2017KC. Expanded Recall: 10 lb Gold Medal All Purpose Flour- Banded Pack Package UPC 000-16000-10650, Case UPC 000-16000-19011, Recalled Better if Used by Dates 15MAY2017KC Expanded Recall: 50 lb Medallion Bakers All Purpose Flour Unit UPC 100-16000-54421 Code Dates/Production Dates 12NOV2015KC, 13NOV2015KC, 18NOV2015KC, 25NOV2015KC, 04DEC2015KC Expanded Recall: 25 lb Pillsbury Best All Purpose Flour (GMI Item number 132074) Unit UPC 100-18000-32475 Code Dates/Production Dates 14NOV2015KC, 15NOV2015KC Expanded Recall: 25 lb Jetro Chef's Quality All Purpose Flour (GMI Item number 57156) Unit UPC 60695-02574 Code Dates/Production Dates 07NOV2015KC
UPC: 0001600012670
Reason for recall: General Mills is recalling a number of products because of a multistate outbreak of E. coli O121 that may be potentially linked to Gold Medal flour, Wondra flour, and Signature Kitchens flour. To date, E. coli O121 has not been found in any General Mills flour products or in the flour manufacturing facility and the company has not been contacted directly by any consumer reporting confirmed illnesses related to these products.
Recalling firm: General Mills, Inc
Firm location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Classification: Class I
Status: Terminated
Recall number: F-2213-2016
Quantity: 614,478 total units for all product
Distribution: All states in US including PR, US Virgin Islands, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands except AK & SD. OUS: ARUBA, HONK KONG, CHINA , BAHAMAS, JAMAICA, BERMUDA, CURACAO, HAITI, THAILAND.
Initiated: 31 May 2016
Reported by FDA: 21 September 2016
Terminated: 30 March 2021
Firm notified by: Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes: Recalled Better If Used By Dates 25MAY2017KC, 26MAY2017KC, 27MAY2017KC, 28MAY2017KC, 29MAY2017KC, 30MAY2017KC, 31MAY2017KC, 01JUN2017KC, 02JUN2017KC, and 03JUN2017KC, 04JUN2017KC, 05JUN2017KC, 16NOV2015KC, 17NOV2015KC, 19NOV5KC, . Expanded recall: 15MAY2017KC through 24MAY2017KC, 04JUN2017KC, 05JUN2017KC, 11JUN2017KC, 12JUN2017KC, 13JUN2017KC, 14JUN2017KC, 03JUN2017KC. 12NOV2015KC, 13NO19NOV5KC, 18NOV2015KC, 25NOV2015KC, 04DEC2015KC, 07NOV2015KC, 14NOV2015KC, 15NOV2015KC, 04NOV2015KC, 05NOV2015KC, 02DEC2015KC Expanded recall #2: 7-25-16 Recalled Better if Used by Dates 18JUN2017KC, 01AUG2017KC, 13AUG2017KC through 21AUG2017KC Expanded Recall: 7-25-16 Recalled Better if Used by Dates 18JUN2017KC, 01AUG2017KC. Expanded Recall #2: 7-25-16 Recalled Better if Used by Dates 18JUN2017KC, 01AUG2017KC, 13AUG2017KC through 21AUG2017KC. Expanded Recall #2 7-25-16 Recalled Better if Used by Dates 01AUG2017KC, 19AUG2017KC, 20AUG2017KC, 21AUG2017KC.

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 10 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 10 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 10. 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 10 of them.
The recall ran for 4.8 years, from 31 May 2016 to termination on 30 March 2021. 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 grain, flour or pasta product run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Flour is a raw agricultural product that consumers treat as though it were cooked, which is the whole reason raw flour recalls exist: nothing in milling is a kill step, and the hazard only appears when somebody eats the dough.

What this recall was for

E. coli

Shiga toxin-producing E. coli recalls concentrate in foods eaten raw or lightly cooked, where no step in the process is hot enough or long enough to be a kill step.

A preventive controls plan covers E. coli contamination under the clauses below. This is where the control belongs, not a finding against any firm named on this page: a recall record states a reason, and most of these recalls were initiated by the firm itself.

21 CFR 117.135(c)(1): Process controls: the controls that apply a treatment, such as a validated kill step, at the point where it reduces the hazard to a safe level.
21 CFR 117 subpart G: Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
21 CFR 120: Juice HACCP: the hazard analysis and critical control point system required for juice processors, including a treatment achieving a 5-log pathogen reduction.

Filed under grains, flour and pasta. A product can sit in more than one.

Other grains, flour and pasta 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.

Reported	Product	Firm	Reason	Class
2020-02-19	King Arthur All Purpose Flour 25# bags	Adm Milling	E.coli O26	Class I
2020-02-19	H&R Flour, UNBL, EN, MT / Product Code 706220 in 50# bags	Adm Milling	E.coli O26	Class I
2020-02-19	Potentate flour / Prod Code: 802217 in 50# bags	Adm Milling	E.coli O26	Class I
2020-02-19	Bulk flour	Adm Milling	E.coli O26	Class I
2020-02-19	Commander Flour, Product Code 704220 in 50 lbs bags	Adm Milling	E.coli O26	Class I
2020-02-19	Bakers Corner All Purpose Flour in 5 lb. bags	Adm Milling	E.coli O26	Class I
2020-02-19	PB 25 LBS All Purpose Flour Product Code 806326	Adm Milling	E.coli O26	Class I
2020-02-19	Best Baker's flour 50 lbs bags	Adm Milling	E.coli O26	Class I

Other records from General Mills, Inc

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 37 other records name this firm.

Reported	Product	Firm	Reason	Class
2023-05-24	Gold Medal Unbleached All Purpose Flour, Enriched, Presifted, packaged in the following sizes: 1. Net Wt 5 lb (2.26kg), UPC 0 16000-19610 0; and 2. Net Wt 10 lb (4.53kg), UPC 0 16000-19580 6. Dist. By General Mills Sales, Inc., Minneapolid, MN 55440.	General Mills, Inc	Flour has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.	Class I
2023-05-24	Gold Medal Bleached All Purpose Flour, Enriched, Presifted, packaged in the following sizes: 1. Net Wt 32 oz (2lb) 907g, UPC 0 16000-10710 6; and 2. Net Wt 5lb (2.26kg), UPC 0 16000-10610 9. Dist. By General Mills Sales, Inc., Minneapolis, MN 55440.	General Mills, Inc	Flour has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.	Class I
2019-10-09	Gold Medal Enriched, Presifted, Unbleached All Purpose Flour, Net Wt. 5 lb (2.26 kg), in paper bags. UPC 16000-19610	General Mills, Inc	5 lb. bags of Gold Medal Unbleached All Purpose flour have the potential to be contaminated with E. coli O26:H11	Class II
2019-02-13	Gold Medal Unbleached All Purpose Flour. Net Wt 5 lb. (2.26kg). UPC 16000-19610. Distributed By General Mills Sales, Inc., Minneapolis, MN 55440 Cook Before Sneaking a Taste. Flour is Raw. Please Cook Fully Before Enjoying.	General Mills, Inc	Gold Medal Unbleached All Purpose 5 lb. flour is being recalled due to potential Salmonella contamination.	Class II
2018-08-08	Cheerios Protein Oats & Honey, Packaged in the following sizes: Net Wt. 19 oz. (583g) UPC 16000-44473. 12 boxes/case, Net Wt. 14.1 oz. (399g) UPC 16000-45137. 16 boxes/case. Dist. By General M ills Sales, Inc., Minneapolis, MN 55440 USA.	General Mills, Inc	Cheerios Protein Oats and Honey cereal may be contaminated with Salmonella.	Class II
2018-02-21	Larabar Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, 5 - 1.6 oz (45g) bars Net Wt 8.0 oz(226g), UPC 21908-48817. Case UPC 000-21908-41675-5	General Mills, Inc	Larabar Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, 5 count, are being recalled because they may contain individually wrapped and labeled Coconut Cream Pie Bars.	Class II
2017-11-01	Cascadian Farm Organic Cinnamon Raisin Granola, Net Wt 15.6 oz (442g). UPC 21908-74329	General Mills, Inc	General Mills is recalling 2 production runs of Cascadian Farm Organic Cinnamon Raisin Granola due to undeclared nut allergen, almond.	Class I
2017-08-09	IQF White Rice ES CA, Cardboard Tote, product #4621686100.	General Mills, Inc	General Mills was notified by customer of IQF noodles found in IQF rice. The IQF noodles contain eggs and wheat.	Class I
2017-06-21	Chocolate chip cookie dough larabars, 10 count , UPC 100-21908-49031 incorrectly packaged in peanut butter cookie larabars boxes, 10 count, UPC000-21908-49154.	General Mills, Inc	Chocolate chip cookie dough larabars which contain cashews were incorrectly packaged in peanut butter cookie larabars boxes. The individual labeling on the chocolate chip cookie dough larabars is correct despite being in the wrong boxes.	Class II
2016-09-21	Betty Crocker Delights Super Moist Party Rainbow Chip Cake Mix, NET WT 15.25 OZ (432 g), Package, UPC package 1 00 16000 40997 9, Carton UPC: 000-16000-40997.	General Mills, Inc	Three flavors of Betty Crocker cake mix are being recalled by General Mills because of possible contamination with E. coli O121 associated with Gold Medal Flour recall.	Class I

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