Food recall

Essential Baking Company, The recall: The product is twisted bread and packaged in a flexible plastic bag with a yellow Kwik-Lok seal

Essential Baking Company, The, of Seattle, WA, recalled The product is twisted bread and packaged in a flexible plastic bag with a yellow Kwik-Lok seal. The FDA's reason: “Undeclared egg. Challah bread was mislabeled as Columbia Sliced bread and the label does not declare egg.” The FDA classified it Class II: it could cause temporary or minor harm. The company began the recall voluntarily on May 4, 2020, and the FDA first listed it in its Enforcement Report of May 20, 2020. The FDA has closed the recall: it found the company did all it reasonably could to remove or correct the product.

How serious

Class II

It could cause temporary or minor harm

Why

Allergen not on the label

Status

Terminated

Closed May 22, 2020

The recall

Company
Essential Baking Company, The (Seattle, WA)
Reason, in FDA's words
“Undeclared egg. Challah bread was mislabeled as Columbia Sliced bread and the label does not declare egg.”
Where it was sold
Distributed in Washington.
Recall began
, by the company
FDA classified it
First in an FDA Enforcement Report
FDA event number
85614

The product recalled

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

  • F-0946-2020 Class II

    The product is twisted bread and packaged in a flexible plastic bag with a yellow Kwik-Lok seal. The label is read in parts: "***ORGANIC SLICED COLUMBIA*** Net Weight 32 ounces *** The ESSENTIAL BAKING Company***INGREDIENTS: Organic Unbleached Wheat Flour, Water, Organic Whole Wheat Flour, Organic Rye Flour, Sea Salt, Organic Barley Malt *** Our products are made in a bakery that uses wheat, eggs, milk, soy and tree nuts ***".

    Codes: May 6.20

    Quantity: 84 loaves

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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 20, 2020.

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.