Class ITerminated · reported 2016-09-21

13.5 ounce Gold Medal Wondra Case UPC 000-16000-42476 Package UPC 000-16000-18980…

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
13.5 ounce Gold Medal Wondra Case UPC 000-16000-42476 Package UPC 000-16000-18980 Recalled Better If Used By Dates 25FEB2017PK, 26FEB2017PK, 27FEB2017PK, 02MAR2017PK, 03MAR2017PK, 04MAR2017PK, and 30MAR2017PK. Expanded Recall: Recalled Better if Used by Dates 23FEB2017KC, 24FEB2017KC Expanded Recall #2: 7-25-16 Recalled Better if Used by Dates 14MAY2017PK 5 lb Safeway Signature Kitchens All Purpose Flour Enriched Bleached Note: Case uses BB (Best By) format, but consumer unit uses BIUB (Better/Best If Used By). Case UPC 100-21130-53001 Package UPC 000-21130-53001 Recalled BIUB MAY 28 17 50 lb Gold Medal Hotel & Restaurant Bakers All-Purpose Enriched Flour Bleached Unit UPC 100-16000-14314 Code Dates/Production Dates 19NOV5KC Expanded: 08NOV2015KC, 09NOV2015KC, 25NOV2015KC, 02DEC2015KC, 03DEC2015KC. 25 lb Gold Medal Hotel & Restaurant Bakers All-Purpose Enriched Flour Bleached Unit UPC 100-16000-14317 Code Dates/Production Dates 15NOV2015KC, 16NOV2015KC, 17NOV2015KC, 18NOV2015KC, 19NOV2015KC, 20NOV2015KC, 21NOV2015KC. Expanded: 12NOV2015KC, 13NOV2015KC, 22NOV2015KC, 25NOV2015KC, 01DEC2015KC, 02DEC2015KC, 03DEC2015KC, 04DEC2015KC, 11NOV2015KC. 25 lb Pillsbury Hotel & Restaurant All Purpose Bleached Enriched Unit UPC 100-18000-32666 Code Dates/Production Dates 16NOV2015KC 50 lb Pillsbury Hotel & Restaurant All Purpose Bleached Enriched Unit UPC 100-18000-32679 Code Dates/Production Dates 17NOV5KC Expanded Recall: 2 lb Signature Kitchens All Purpose Flour Enriched Bleached Package UPC 000-21130-53000, Case UPC 100-21130-53000, Recalled Better if Used by Dates BB MAY 27 2017 Expanded Recall #2 7-25-16. Recalled Better if Used by Dates BB 15 AUG 2017, BB 16 AUG 2017 Expanded Recall: 10 lb Gold Medal H&R All Purpose Bleached Enriched Flour, Unit UPC 100-16000-14473, Code Dates/Production Dates 04NOV2015KC, 05NOV2015KC, 10NOV2015KC, 11NOV2015KC. Expanded Recall: 25 lb Medallion All Purpose Flour Bleached Enriched Flour Unit UPC 100-16000-54425 Code Dates/Production Dates 19NOV2015KC, 25NOV2015KC, 01DEC2015KC, 02DEC2015KC, 03DEC2015KC Expanded Recall: 50 lb Wondra Enriched Flour Unit UPC 100-16000-58995 Code Dates/Production Dates 07NOV2015KC, 08NOV2015KC, 04DEC2015KC Expanded Recall: 25 lb Pillsbury H&R All Purpose Bleached Enriched Unit UPC 100-18000-32666 Code Dates/Production Dates 12NOV2015KC Expanded Recall: 50 lb Sysco Classic H&R Flour Bleached Enriched Malted (GMI Item number 52124) Unit UPC 34730-23936 Code Dates/Production Dates 08NOV2015KC, 25NOV2015KC, 03DEC2015KC, 04DEC2015KC Expanded Recall: 25 lb Sysco All-Purpose H&R Flour Bleached Enriched Malted (GMI item number 52125) Unit UPC 34730-23957 Code Dates/Production Dates 07NOV2015KC, 14NOV2015KC Expanded Recall: 25 lb Sysco All-Purpose H&R Flour Bleached Enriched Malted (GMI Item number 52126) Unit UPC 34730-23958 Code Dates/Production Dates 12NOV2015KC, 14NOV2015KC, 03DEC2015KC, 04DEC2015KC
UPC
0002113053000
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-2216-2016
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 25FEB2017PK, 26FEB2017PK, 27FEB2017PK, 02MAR2017PK, 03MAR2017PK, 04MAR2017PK, 30MAR2017PK, MAY 28 17, 04NOV2015KC, 05NOV2015KC, 10NOV2015KC , 11NOV2015KC,15NOV2015 TO 19NOV2015KC, 20NOV2015KC, 21NOV2015KC. Expanded Recall: 23FEB2017PK, 24FEB2017PK, MAY 27 2017, 12NOV2015KC, 13NOV2015KC, 22NOV2015KC, 25NOV2015KC, 01DEC2015KC, 02DEC2015KC, 03DEC2015KC, 04DEC2015KC, 08NOV2015KC, 19NOV2015KC, 11NOV2015KC, 14NOV2015KC, 07NOV2015KC, 09NOV2015KC. Expanded Recall #2: 7-25-2016 Recalled Better if Used by Dates 14MAY2017PK Expanded Recall #2 7-25-16. Recalled Better if Used by Dates BB 15 AUG 2017, BB 16 AUG 2017

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. All 10 of them are listed on this page.
  • 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.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 10 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 9 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.

The other 9 records of FDA event 74285
ReportedProductFirmReasonClass
2016-09-2125 lb Uncle Julios Tortilla Flour Bleached, Malted, Enriched Unit UPC 100-16000-50257 Code Dates/Production Dates 18NOV2015KC, 19NOV2015KCGeneral Mills, IncGeneral 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.Class I
2016-09-2125 lb Gold Medal Hotel & Restaurant Bakers Self-Rising Enriched Flour Bleached Unit UPC 100-16000-14318 Code Dates/Production Dates 16NOV2015KC, 02DEC2015KC, 03DEC2015KC.General Mills, IncGeneral 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.Class I
2016-09-215 lb Gold Medal Unbleached Flour Case UPC 000-16000-12690 Package UPC 000-16000-19610 Recalled Better If Used By Dates 25MAY2017KC, 27MAY2017KC, 03JUN2017KC, 04JUN2017KC Expanded Recall: 19MAY2017KC through 24MAY2017KC, 11JUN2017KC, 12JUN2017KC Expanded Recall #2 7-25-16. Recalled Better if Used by Dates 01AUG2017KC, 14AUG2017KC, 15AUG2017KC, 16AUG2017KC, 17AUG2017KC, 19AUG2017KC, 20AUG2017KC Expanded Recall: 50 lb Gold Medal H&R All Purpose Unbleached Flour Unit UPC 100-16000-14439 Code Dates/Production Dates 05NOV2015KC, 16NOV2015KC, 17NOV2015KC, 04DEC2015KCGeneral Mills, IncGeneral 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.Class I
2016-09-2150lb Sysco Classic Hotel & Restaurant Flour Bleached Enriched Malted Unit UPC 34730-23936 Code Dates/Production Dates 17NOV5KC, 18NOV5KC 25lb Sysco All-Purpose Hotel & Restaurant Flour Bleached Enriched Malted Unit UPC 34730-23957 Code Dates/Production Dates 20NOV5KC, 21NOV5KC 25lb Sysco All-Purpose Hotel & Restaurant Flour Bleached Enriched Malted Unit UPC 34730-23958 Code Dates/Production Dates 20NOV2015KC, 21NOV2015KCGeneral Mills, IncGeneral 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.Class I
2016-09-215 lb Safeway Signature Kitchens Unbleached Flour All Purpose Enriched Note: Case uses BB (Best By) format, but consumer unit uses BIUB (Better/Best If Used By). Case UPC 100-21130-53022 Package UPC 000-21130-53022 Recalled BIUB MAY 27 17 Expanded Recall #2 7-25-16 Recalled Better if Used by Dates BB 01 AUG 2017. 25lb Gold Medal Hotel & Restaurant Bakers All Purpose Enriched Flour Unbleached Unit UPC 100-16000-14438 Code Dates/Production Dates 18NOV2015KCGeneral Mills, IncGeneral 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.Class I
2016-09-2125lb New Yung Wah Diamond Brand Hotel & Restaurant Enriched Bromated Bleached Flour Unit UPC 100-16000-50875 Code Dates/Production Dates 15NOV2015KCGeneral Mills, IncGeneral 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.Class I
2016-09-21Expanded Recall: 50 lb Wondra Enriched Unmalted Flour Unit UPC 100-16000-54380 Code Dates/Production Dates 04NOV2015KC, 05NOV2015KCGeneral Mills, IncGeneral 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.Class I
2016-09-212 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 07NOV2015KCGeneral Mills, IncGeneral 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.Class I
2016-09-212 lb Gold Medal Self Rising Flour Case UPC 000-16000-10730 Package UPC 000-16000-11710 Recalled Better If Used By Dates 23AUG2016KC Expanded: 09AUG2016KC, 10AUG2016KC, 16AUG2016KC, 17AUG2016KC, 06SEP2016KC, 07SEP2016KC Expanded Recall: 5 lb Gold Medal Self Rising Flour Package UPC 000-16000-11610 Recalled Better if Used by Dates 10AUG2016KC, 11AUG2016KC Expanded Recall #2 7-25-16 Recalled Better if Used by Dates 27OCT2016KCGeneral Mills, IncGeneral 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.Class I

Other grains, flour and pasta recalls for the same reason

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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.

ReportedProductFirmReasonClass
2023-05-24Gold 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, IncFlour has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.Class I
2023-05-24Gold 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, IncFlour has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.Class I
2019-10-09Gold Medal Enriched, Presifted, Unbleached All Purpose Flour, Net Wt. 5 lb (2.26 kg), in paper bags. UPC 16000-19610General Mills, Inc5 lb. bags of Gold Medal Unbleached All Purpose flour have the potential to be contaminated with E. coli O26:H11Class II
2019-02-13Gold 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, IncGold Medal Unbleached All Purpose 5 lb. flour is being recalled due to potential Salmonella contamination.Class II
2018-08-08Cheerios 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, IncCheerios Protein Oats and Honey cereal may be contaminated with Salmonella.Class II
2018-02-21Larabar Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, 5 - 1.6 oz (45g) bars Net Wt 8.0 oz(226g), UPC 21908-48817. Case UPC 000-21908-41675-5General Mills, IncLarabar Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, 5 count, are being recalled because they may contain individually wrapped and labeled Coconut Cream Pie Bars.Class II
2017-11-01Cascadian Farm Organic Cinnamon Raisin Granola, Net Wt 15.6 oz (442g). UPC 21908-74329General Mills, IncGeneral Mills is recalling 2 production runs of Cascadian Farm Organic Cinnamon Raisin Granola due to undeclared nut allergen, almond.Class I
2017-08-09IQF White Rice ES CA, Cardboard Tote, product #4621686100.General Mills, IncGeneral Mills was notified by customer of IQF noodles found in IQF rice. The IQF noodles contain eggs and wheat.Class I
2017-06-21Chocolate 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, IncChocolate 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
2016-09-21Betty 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, IncThree 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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