Dakota Specialty Milling Recalls Organic Wheat Flour Due to Metal Wire Fragments
Dakota Specialty Milling is recalling organic wheat flour and blends due to potential contamination with pliable metal wire mesh fragments from a defective sifter.
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: The recall involves a risk-of-harm product (foreign material contamination) where no specific injuries or illnesses have been reported in the source text, fitting the 'High' severity criteria for potential harm without confirmed cases.
Plain-English summary
Dakota Specialty Milling, Inc. is recalling certain lots of organic high gluten refined hard red spring wheat flour and flour blends. The recall is being conducted because the products have the potential to be contaminated with pliable metal wire mesh fragments originating from a defective flour sifter.
The affected products include 50-pound bags of organic high gluten refined hard red spring wheat flour. The distribution pattern for these products includes Arizona, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Consumers who have purchased these products should stop using them and contact the recalling firm for further instructions. The hazard associated with this recall is the presence of foreign material (metal wire mesh) in the food product.
The recalled product
- Product
- 4060801, ORGANIC HIGH GLUTEN REFINED HARD RED SPRING WHEAT FLOUR(ORGANIC WHEAT), DAKOTA SPECIALTY MILLING, INC., FARGO, ND , 1 NET WT 50 LBS..
- Manufacturer
- Dakota Specialty Milling, Inc
- Category
- Food — Flour / Grains
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 (1)
- 12041203
Distribution
Part of a larger recall action
This product is one of 52 recalled by Dakota Specialty Milling, Inc 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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