LittleOak Natural Goat Milk Infant Formula (Stage 1); packaged in 800g (1.8lbs) tin cans…
The Little Oak Company Ltd recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 18 October 2023 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. No pre-market notification and Mixing instructions not in ounces
The record
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- Product
- LittleOak Natural Goat Milk Infant Formula (Stage 1); packaged in 800g (1.8lbs) tin cans - six cans per case.
- Reason for recall
- No pre-market notification and Mixing instructions not in ounces
- Recalling firm
- The Little Oak Company Ltd
- Firm location
- Auckland, N/A, New Zealand
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0008-2024
- Quantity
- 14,100 cans
- Distribution
- WY, CA, NY, GA, IL, UT, MD, CO, PA, VT, TX, IN, FL, CT, HI, SC, MN, LA, NJ, MI, WA, OH, KY, NM, ID, MO, OK, NV, AR, NE, IA, MA, VA, TN, NC, AK, AV, AL, NH, SD, WI, PR, RI, KS, ME, MT, DC
- Initiated
- 11 September 2023
- Reported by FDA
- 18 October 2023
- Terminated
- 2 November 2023
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- Batch No. L-M-22-33 and MANF16410 Product No. FPG005 Best By: 25/3/2024, 12/4/2025
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 2 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 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. Every product code in this event is listed together on the record that covers the whole recall, which is the page a search engine is pointed to for all 2 of them.
- The recall ran for 7 weeks, from 11 September 2023 to termination on 2 November 2023. 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 distribution pattern names 46 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of infant formula or baby food run a median of 10 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Infant formula is the most tightly regulated food in the United States because it is frequently the only thing an infant eats, so a nutrient deviation is a hazard in a way it is not in any other product.
Named in the distribution pattern: Wyoming, California, New York, Georgia, Illinois, Utah, Maryland, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Texas, Indiana, Florida, Connecticut, Hawaii, South Carolina, Minnesota, Louisiana, New Jersey, Michigan, Washington, Ohio, Kentucky, New Mexico, Idaho, Missouri, Oklahoma, Nevada, Arkansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Massachusetts, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Alaska, Alabama, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Kansas, Maine, Montana, District of Columbia. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
Filed under infant formula and baby food and milk and dairy. A product can sit in more than one.
Other infant formula and baby food recalls
These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. 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 The Little Oak Company Ltd
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-10-18 | LittleOak Natural Goat Milk Follow On Infant Formula (Stage 2); packaged in 800g (1.8lbs) tin cans - six cans per case. | The Little Oak Company Ltd | No pre-market notification and Mixing instructions not in ounces | Class II |
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