Food recall

Whole Foods Market recall: Decorated (iced holiday cookies sold from self service cookie displays - cookies in the shape of eggs, bunnies and...

Whole Foods Market, of Emeryville, CA, recalled Decorated (iced holiday cookies sold from self service cookie displays - cookies in the shape of eggs, bunnies and.... The FDA's reason: “Some decorated (iced) Easter cookies in the shapes of eggs, bunnies and chicks sold in bulk bins in 9 northern CA Whole Foods locations do not properly declare egg as an ingredient or allergen.” The FDA classified it Class I: it could cause serious harm or death. The company began the recall voluntarily on March 25, 2018, and the FDA first listed it in its Enforcement Report of May 2, 2018. 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 June 8, 2018

The recall

Company
Whole Foods Market (Emeryville, CA)
Reason, in FDA's words
“Some decorated (iced) Easter cookies in the shapes of eggs, bunnies and chicks sold in bulk bins in 9 northern CA Whole Foods locations do not properly declare egg as an ingredient or allergen.”
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
79626

The product recalled

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

  • F-1118-2018 Class I

    Decorated (iced holiday cookies sold from self service cookie displays - cookies in the shape of eggs, bunnies and chicks. The signage by the displays do not declare egg as an ingredient of the cookies. Cookies are received in a 9 lb. bag Correct Ingredients: Unbleached, Unbromated Wheat Flour (Wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), Cane Sugar, Palm Fruit Oil, Cage Free Eggs, Vanilla, Water, cream of Tartar, Baking Soda, Corn starch, dextrose, natural flavoring. Signs at all locations have been changed. Cookies were sold in 9 Bay area, CA Whole Food locations.

    Codes: Sold on or before March 24, 2018

    Quantity: 750 cookies (approximately)

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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 2, 2018.

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.