Food recall

Whole Foods Market recall: Decorated (sugared) holiday cookies sold in the shape of purple eggs, pink bunnies or yellow chicks

Whole Foods Market, of Emeryville, CA, recalled Decorated (sugared) holiday cookies sold in the shape of purple eggs, pink bunnies or yellow chicks and 1 other product. The FDA's reason: “undeclared egg.” The FDA classified it Class I: it could cause serious harm or death. The company began the recall voluntarily on April 15, 2017, and the FDA first listed it in its Enforcement Report of May 24, 2017. The FDA has closed the recall: it found the company did all it reasonably could to remove or correct the product.

How serious

Class I

It could cause serious harm or death

Why

Allergen not on the label

Status

Terminated

Closed May 31, 2017

The recall

Company
Whole Foods Market (Emeryville, CA)
Reason, in FDA's words
“undeclared egg”
Where it was sold
Bay area, CA only
Recall began
, by the company
FDA classified it
First in an FDA Enforcement Report
FDA event number
77031

The 2 products recalled

As the FDA describes them, with the codes that tell whether a package is part of the recall.

  • F-2217-2017 Class I

    Decorated (sugared) holiday cookies sold in the shape of purple eggs, pink bunnies or yellow chicks. These cookies were sold in the self service cookie display.

    Codes: No codes - sold in self service bin - holiday shapes Cookies sold on or prior to April 14, 2017.

    Quantity: 9936 cookies

  • F-2218-2017 Class II

    Decorated (iced) holiday cookies sold in the shape of eggs. These cookies were sold in the self service cookie displays. Individual cookies are 1.3 oz.. each. Cookie labels identify the cookies as: Sugared Purple Egg Cookies: Sugar Pink Bunny Cookie; Sugared Yellow Chick Cookie; Iced Easter Egg Cookie; Ingredients: Iced Sugared egg, bunny and chick cookies for original, uncorrected shelf tags. Contains Wheat: Ingredients: Unbleached Unbromated Wheat flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), Cane Sugar, Palm Fruit Oil, Vanilla, Water, Baking Soda, Salt. Natural coloring. Napa store Iced Easter Egg Cookie - uncorrected: Contains: Eggs, Milk, Soy, Tree nuts Ingredients: Rice Flour, Sugar, Unsalted Butter, Eggs, Milk, Tapioca Starch, Potato Starch, Vanilla Extract, Pure Almond Extract, Baking Powder, cornstarch, bicarbonate of soda, monocalcium Phosphate_ Kosher salt, Xanthan Gum, Sucrose Maltodextrin, Natural Red Food Color (plan extractives) Natural Green Food Color (alfalfa, Natural Yellow Food Color (plant extracts).

    Codes: No codes - sold in self service bin - holiday shapes Cookies sold on or prior to April 14, 2017.

    Quantity: 216 cookies

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Source and notes

U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Enforcement Reports (openFDA food recall data) (Public domain (U.S. government work); source U.S. Food and Drug Administration, openFDA), data as of May 24, 2017.

Each week the FDA lists the recalls it has classified in its Enforcement Report, often weeks after the company announced the recall, so a month with five weekly reports tends to count more. Each recall counts once, however many products it covers, in the month FDA first listed it. Class I means the food could cause serious harm or death, Class II temporary or minor harm, and Class III is unlikely to harm anyone. Meat, poultry and most egg products are recalled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, not the FDA, and aren't included. For what to do with a recalled product, see the FDA's recalls page.