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Recall · Class II2016-06-03Terminated

Contains peanut without saying so on the label, which matters if you are allergic to it.

Product is manufactured with flour known to contain peanut allergen and is not labeled to contain peanuts.

Above, in the agency’s own words. The line before it is our plain-English summary — how we word these.

Issued by the US Food and Drug Administration, naming Hostess.

What the notice covered

Chocolate Frosted Mini Donuts, packaged in 6-20ct and 9ct bags of mini donuts as Hostess Donettes Frosted Mini Donuts, net wt. 11.25oz, UPC 888109150020; packaged in 9ct bags of mini donuts as Hostess Donettes Frosted Mini Donuts, net wt. 14.07oz, UPC 888109110239; packaged in 6ct single serve packages as Dolly Madison Chocolate Mini Donuts, net wt. 3oz, UPC 888109300067; packaged in 6ct single serve packages as Hostess Donettes Frosted Mini Donuts, net wt. 3oz, UPC 888109050023; the most responsible firm name on the label is Hostess Brands, LLC, Kansas City, MO 64141

Quoted from the record as published. If a product is not described here, this notice does not tell us whether it was affected.

What Class II means

The FDA’s middle class: use of the product may cause temporary or medically reversible health consequences, and the probability of serious harm is remote.

This is the agency’s own definition of the class. We do not assign classes and we do not rank them against each other.

The record

Agency
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Reference number
F-2118-2016
Kind of action
Recall
Dated
2016-06-03
Terminated
2017-12-01
Status on the record
Terminated
We read it
2026-10-01

Regulates most packaged food, drugs and devices. Its recall records are published weekly in the Enforcement Report.

Products we matched to this notice

donettesthe notice printed this product’s barcode: “888109150020”
Frosted Mini Donutsthe notice printed this product’s barcode: “888109110239”
Frosted Mini Donutsthe notice printed this product’s barcode: “888109300067”
donettes Frostedthe notice printed this product’s barcode: “888109050023”

How we are treating it

This notice concerns the product line itself or how it was produced.

The government record

The FDA publishes this notice through its enforcement API, so the link below returns raw JSON rather than a readable page. It is the primary record and we cite it as such; everything above is our transcription of it.

https://api.fda.gov/food/enforcement.json?search=recall_number:"F-2118-2016"

To see it in the FDA’s own words, search the reference number F-2118-2016 in the Search the FDA Enforcement Report. The FDA publishes no direct link to an individual recall.

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