Carley s Soft Baked Iced Lemon Cookies, 5.34oz Plastic Tray, clear film overwrap w/…

Carley's Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 2 July 2025 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product has a misbranded Yellow Color. Identified on label at Artificial Yellow Color , and it should be identified as FD&C Yellow #5

The record

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Product

Carley s Soft Baked Iced Lemon Cookies, 5.34oz Plastic Tray, clear film overwrap w/ Label, 12 units per case

Reason for recall

Product has a misbranded Yellow Color. Identified on label at Artificial Yellow Color , and it should be identified as FD&C Yellow #5

Recalling firm

Carley's Inc.

Firm location

Lake Forest, Illinois, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

H-0088-2025

Quantity

5,826 cases

Distribution

Product is shipped to wholesalers who further distribute to retail stores. Wholesalers are located in IL, MI, IA, LA, MD, PA, VA, MN, AL, TX, GA, SC, NY, NC, WV,

Initiated

6 June 2025

Reported by FDA

2 July 2025

Terminated

23 July 2025

Firm notified by

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Product codes

UPC Code: 7 40235 50011 0 Exp Date-Lot Code 01726-040225 11245-012825 031026-051425 061925-082324 080525-100924 081725-102124 091025-111424 061925-082324 112425-012825

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 7 weeks, from 6 June 2025 to termination on 23 July 2025. 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 14 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a bakery product run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter 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.

Named in the distribution pattern: Michigan, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Minnesota, Alabama, Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, New York, North Carolina, West Virginia. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

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.

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