Class IITerminated · reported 2012-10-31

Boulart Multigrain Ciabatta Baquette, 18/11.5 ounce loaves, UPC 82684622102.

Wakefern Food Corp. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 31 October 2012 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. This product is being recalled due to the potential of metal foreign matter contained in the product.

The record

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Product
Boulart Multigrain Ciabatta Baquette, 18/11.5 ounce loaves, UPC 82684622102.
UPC
82684622102
Reason for recall
This product is being recalled due to the potential of metal foreign matter contained in the product.
Recalling firm
Wakefern Food Corp.
Firm location
Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States
Classification
Class II
Status
Terminated
Recall number
F0515-2013
Quantity
400 cases
Distribution
CT, DE, MD, NJ, NY and PA.
Initiated
18 May 2012
Reported by FDA
31 October 2012
Terminated
11 May 2015
Firm notified by
E-Mail
Product codes
UPC 82684622102; Wakefern Item Code: 80022884; SRS Scale Code: 29577700000.

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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
  • The recall ran for 3.0 years, from 18 May 2012 to termination on 11 May 2015. 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 distribution pattern names 6 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 months after the firm began the recall.
  • The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.

Named in the distribution pattern: Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

What this recall was for

Foreign material

A foreign material recall means something that is not food was found in food: metal, plastic, glass, wood or insect matter, usually shed by equipment during processing.

A preventive controls plan covers foreign material 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 117.40
Equipment and utensils: plant equipment designed and maintained so it cannot contaminate food with lubricants, fuel, metal fragments or contaminated water.
21 CFR 117.80(c)
Manufacturing operations: the measures that protect food from contamination during processing, including the effective ones against metal and other extraneous material.
21 CFR 117.150
Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.

Other records from Wakefern Food Corp.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 19 other records name this firm.

ReportedProductFirmReasonClass
2016-12-28Gourmet Chocolate Dipped Cookies Net Wt. 46 oz UPC 269969414994Wakefern Food Corp.Cookies may contain metal pieces.Class II
2016-12-2824CT Take&Bake Oatmeal Rasin Cookies Net Wt. 24oz UPC 20873004194Wakefern Food Corp.Cookies may contain metal pieces.Class II
2016-12-2824CT Take&Bake Sugar Cookies Net Wt. 24oz UPC 208906004195Wakefern Food Corp.Cookies may contain metal pieces.Class II
2016-12-2824CT Oatmeal Raisin Cookies Net Wt. 24oz UPC 208710004190Wakefern Food Corp.Cookies may contain metal pieces.Class II
2016-12-2812 Gourmet Variety Pack Cookies - Net Wt. 15 oz UPC 289786003997 Gourmet Variety Pack Cookies Net Wt. 30 oz UPC 289772006995Wakefern Food Corp.Cookies may contain metal pieces.Class II
2016-12-2824CT Chocolate Chip Cookies Net Wt. 24oz UPC 208707004198Wakefern Food Corp.Cookies may contain metal pieces.Class II
2016-12-2824CT Sugar Cookies Net Wt. 24oz UPC 208719004191Wakefern Food Corp.Cookies may contain metal pieces.Class II
2016-12-2824CT Double Chocolate Cookies Net Wt. 24oz UPC 208722004195Wakefern Food Corp.Cookies may contain metal pieces.Class II
2016-12-2812 pack Gourmet Oatmeal Raisin Cookies Net Wt 15 oz. UPC 289784203993 24 pack Gourmet Oatmeal Raisin Cookies Net Wt. 30 oz. UPC 289774706992 Gourmet Oatmeal/Raisin Cookies Net Wt. 30 oz UPC 289771006996Wakefern Food Corp.Cookies may contain metal pieces.Class II
2016-12-2824CT Candy Cookies Net Wt. 24oz UPC 208713004197Wakefern Food Corp.Cookies may contain metal pieces.Class II

All 20 records for Wakefern Food Corp.

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