Cerebelly Smart Bar; Strawberry Beet flavor; 5 pk and 7 pk; ambient storage

CEREBELLY INC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 4 October 2023 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Surface mold visible on product

The record

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Product

Cerebelly Smart Bar; Strawberry Beet flavor; 5 pk and 7 pk; ambient storage

Reason for recall

Surface mold visible on product

Recalling firm

CEREBELLY INC

Firm location

Los Gatos, California, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0006-2024

Quantity

152,655 (5pks) and 1,895 (7pks), total of 154,554 selling cartons for all products

Distribution

U.S. distribution to all 50 states and territories. No foreign distribution.

Initiated

11 September 2023

Reported by FDA

4 October 2023

Terminated

13 August 2024

Firm notified by

E-Mail

Product codes

Lots 23089BW (Mfg date 03/31/23; Exp date 12/26/23); 23093BW (Mfg date 04/03/23; Exp date 12/29/23); 23094BW (Mfg date 04/04/23; Exp date 12/30/23)

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

• Class II means the FDA judged a remote probability of serious harm, or a probability of temporary or medically reversible harm. The class is assigned by an agency health hazard evaluation under 21 CFR 7.41, not by the firm.
• The firm started this recall itself. Most FDA food recalls are voluntary, and a recall is a food safety plan working rather than failing. The circumstances in which the agency asks for one instead are set out in 21 CFR 7.45.
• This is one of 4 records covering the same recall event. The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so a recall of a product line appears here many times. Counting these records as 4 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 4. All 4 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 11 months, from 11 September 2023 to termination on 13 August 2024. Termination means the agency judged that all reasonable effort had been made, under 21 CFR 7.55, and it says nothing about whether product remained in circulation.
• The FDA published the enforcement report 3 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Fresh produce is the category where contamination arrives before the facility does: irrigation water, soil amendments and field workers are the routes, and nothing downstream of the farm is a kill step for a product eaten raw.

What this recall was for

Filed under fresh produce and snacks and confectionery. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

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Other fresh produce recalls for the same reason

These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food, recalled for a hazard this record also names. Unlike the firm’s own records below, they come from different companies, which is what makes them a pattern rather than a history.

Other records from CEREBELLY INC

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.

All 4 records for CEREBELLY INC

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