Trader Joe's Mini Whole Wheat Pitas, UPC 00637138

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Trader Joe's Mini Whole Wheat Pitas, UPC 00637138 Middle East Bakery, Inc. · reported 2015-04-22

Terminated This recall has been closed out by the agency.

Reason for recall: Product may contain undeclared soy.
Classification: Class I
Recall initiated: 2015-01-30
Reported by the agency: 2015-04-22
Closed out (terminated): 2016-07-26
Recalling firm: Middle East Bakery, Inc.
Lawrence, MA
United States
This is the firm that issued the recall — commonly a distributor or processor. It is not the origin of contamination.
Distribution (the agency's own words): Product is picked up at Middle East Bakery by independent drivers that supply markets in their territory. The headquarters representative for each firm that potentially received product was notified as a result the downstream customers (retail stores) were notified by their corporate offices. The Josephs brand name products were distributed in markets in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts and Connecticut, and in the following stores: Market Basket, Stop & Shop, Shaws, Hannaford and Big Y. The Trader Joes products were distributed only in Trader Joe's stores in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C.
States we parsed from that text: CT DC DE MA MD ME NH NJ NY PA RI VA VT
The agency named these states. Parse method explicit_state_list, confidence high.
Food category: Bakeryderived
Assigned by a reviewed keyword rulebook over the product description, not by the agency.
Recall type: Voluntary: Firm initiated
Recall number: F-1965-2015

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