Bulk Baking Ingredient Recalled for Potential Foreign Material Contamination
Mennel Milling Company is recalling SPECIAL CAKE 53869 bulk ingredient due to potential contamination with metal, wood, and other foreign material. Affected product was distributed in six states.
The agency’s classification
FDA (Food): Class II
Class II is a situation in which use of or exposure to a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences, or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.
This is the agency’s own classification, taken from its notice. The severity score below is our assessment, not the agency’s. How recall classes work
What this means for you
Our assessment, not the agency’s: severity 3/5 (High).
Real risk of harm even if no illness or injury has been reported yet. Stop using the product and follow the agency's guidance.
Our severity reasoning: This is a risk-of-harm product with potential injury from foreign material contamination and no reported illnesses, meeting the rubric criterion for High severity. Foreign material (metal and wood) in food poses direct choking and injury risks.
Plain-English summary
SPECIAL CAKE 53869 is a bulk baking ingredient delivered in approximately 50,000-pound trailers. Mennel Milling Company is recalling a total of 2,633,960 pounds of this product.
The product may contain foreign material including metal, wood, gasket material, and sifter balls. These contaminants pose a risk of injury to consumers if ingested.
The affected product was distributed to Kentucky, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Consumers and food manufacturers in these states should check for affected lot codes.
Consumers should not use product with the affected lot codes and should contact Mennel Milling Company or the FDA for additional information or proper disposal instructions.
The recalled product
- Product
- SPECIAL CAKE 53869 delivered as bulk product in approximately 50,000 lbs trailers
- Manufacturer
- Mennel Milling Company
- Category
- Food — Bulk Ingredient
Is your product affected?
Check your packaging against the codes below. If any of them match, the product is part of this recall.
Lot numbers (20)
- Lot Codes: 24024-43
- 24024-46
- 24024-51
- 24024-55
- 24025-04
- 24025-17
- 24025-11
- 24025-14
- 24025-07
- 24025-33
- 24025-40
- 24025-37
- 24026-10
- 24026-24
- 24026-26
- 24026-05
- 24026-19
- 24025-46
- 24027-14
- 24027-19
Distribution
Part of a larger recall action
This product is one of 26 recalled by Mennel Milling Company under a single FDA (Food) recall action. The agency files each product separately, so the size of the action is not visible from this page alone.
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