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Recall · Class II2015-12-03Terminated

May contain small pieces of metal.

Metal shavings were found around the perimeter of brownies purchased by customer.

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 Whole Foods Market.

What the notice covered

Whole Foods Market Crazy for Cream cheese Brownie; Sold as single (4 oz.) and 4-pack (15 oz.) Ingredients: unbleached wheat flour, cocoa, vanilla, sugar, butter (pasteurized cream, salt), eggs, cream cheese (pasteurized milk and cream cheese culture, salt, xanthan and or carob bean stabilizer) sugar, butter (cream, salt) baking soda and sea salt, non-stick spray (soy, soy lecithin). Contains wheat, milk, soy, eggs. Whole Foods, Emeryville, CA. UPC - single: 0024044800000, 0024369200000, UPC - 4-pack: 00243693000000; 0024369400000.

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-0719-2016
Kind of action
Recall
Dated
2015-12-03
Terminated
2016-03-11
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

We have not matched this notice to any product in our database — usually because it named no barcode we hold. Products may still have been affected.

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-0719-2016"

To see it in the FDA’s own words, search the reference number F-0719-2016 in the Search the FDA Enforcement Report. The FDA publishes no direct link to an individual recall.

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