Decorated (iced) holiday cookies
Food recall F-2218-2017. Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on May 24, 2017.
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The short answer
Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on May 24, 2017. Copied from openFDA on Oct 20, 2026.
- Class II FDA’s class
- Terminated its status, in FDA’s file
- California the one state its words name
- 216 cookies how much, in FDA’s words
Every line below is in FDA’s own words, with its source beside it. FDA’s terms are explained in FDA’s own words.
How serious is it, by FDA’s class?
Class II, the middle of FDA’s three classes.
“Products that might cause a temporary health problem, or pose only a slight threat of a serious nature. Example: a drug that is under-strength but that is not used to treat life-threatening situations.”
openFDA, in plain words, its enforcement report fields.
“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.”
FDA’s rule, 21 CFR 7.3(m)(2), eCFR.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
What’s wrong with it?
undeclared wheat
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Which ones are recalled?
Decorated (iced) holiday cookies sold in the shape of eggs. These cookies were sold in the self service cookie displays. Individual cookies are 1.3 oz.. each. Cookie labels identify the cookies as: Sugared Purple Egg Cookies: Sugar Pink Bunny Cookie; Sugared Yellow Chick Cookie; Iced Easter Egg Cookie; Ingredients: Iced Sugared egg, bunny and chick cookies for original, uncorrected shelf tags. Contains Wheat: Ingredients: Unbleached Unbromated Wheat flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), Cane Sugar, Palm Fruit Oil, Vanilla, Water, Baking Soda, Salt. Natural coloring. Napa store Iced Easter Egg Cookie - uncorrected: Contains: Eggs, Milk, Soy, Tree nuts Ingredients: Rice Flour, Sugar, Unsalted Butter, Eggs, Milk, Tapioca Starch, Potato Starch, Vanilla Extract, Pure Almond Extract, Baking Powder, cornstarch, bicarbonate of soda, monocalcium Phosphate_ Kosher salt, Xanthan Gum, Sucrose Maltodextrin, Natural Red Food Color (plan extractives) Natural Green Food Color (alfalfa, Natural Yellow Food Color (plant extracts).
216 cookies, in FDA’s words.
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Codes to check against yours
No codes - sold in self service bin - holiday shapes Cookies sold on or prior to April 14, 2017.
Copied exactly as FDA lists them: lot and serial numbers, dates and other codes on the product or its label.
Where did it go?
FDA’s words for the “general area of initial distribution”: where the firm first shipped it.
Bay area, CA only
The states and territories these words name
- California
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Is it still going on?
Terminated, in FDA’s file.
“FDA has determined that all reasonable efforts have been made to remove or correct the violative product in accordance with the recall strategy, and proper disposition has been made according to the degree of hazard.”
openFDA, on “Terminated”, its enforcement report fields.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
- The firm began the recall on Apr 15, 2017.
- FDA classified it on May 12, 2017.
- FDA’s Enforcement Report published it on May 24, 2017.
- FDA terminated it on May 31, 2017.
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Who is recalling it?
- Whole Foods Market, of Emeryville, CA.
- Who began it, in FDA’s words: Voluntary: Firm initiated.
- How the firm first told its customers: Press Release.
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
What this record can’t tell you
- Whether your own one is affected: compare the codes, dates and numbers above with yours. When unsure, ask the firm or the store.
- Where it went after the firm’s first shipments. FDA’s words cover the firm’s initial distribution, and, in FDA’s words, “subsequent distribution by the consignees to other parties may not be included.”
- How many have been returned, corrected or destroyed: FDA’s report doesn’t say.
- Whether anyone was hurt or fell ill: the report doesn’t say.
- How current it is: openFDA publishes FDA’s Enforcement Report weekly, after FDA does, and a firm can announce a recall weeks before it appears there. openFDA’s own caution: “This data should not be used as a method to collect data to issue alerts to the public, nor should it be used to track the lifecycle of a recall.”
- Meat, poultry and egg products are recalled by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, not FDA, and its recalls aren’t here yet: see fsis.usda.gov.
- A product with no recall here isn’t safe by that: FDA’s report lists the recalls FDA classified, and when.
Hearth Record wrote these lines; the quotations are FDA’s.
Sources
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Food recall enforcement reports.
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