FDA recalls · F-1118-2018
Whole Foods Market recall
- FoodDecorated (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.
- ReasonSome 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.
- ClassClass I: most serious: the food could cause serious health problems or death
- StatusClosed by FDA, ended 2018-06-08
- DatesFirm started it 2018-03-25. In FDA's enforcement report 2018-05-02.
- Sold inBay area CA only
- Amount750 cookies (approximately)
- CodesSold on or before March 24, 2018
- FirmWhole Foods Market, Emeryville, CA · Voluntary: Firm initiated
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From FDA's enforcement report, via openFDA (CC0): raw data for this recall. FDA's own Enforcement Report search finds it by its number, F-1118-2018. Class meanings: FDA.