Non-GMO Ingredients Go Green Fuel for the Entire Body Dietary Supplement.
Empirical Laboratories, Incorporated recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 20 November 2013 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Empirical Labs is recalling certain lots of dietary supplements due to potential for adulteration with chloramphenicol.
The record
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- Product
- Non-GMO Ingredients Go Green Fuel for the Entire Body Dietary Supplement. All-Natural Greens Dietary Supplement. Manufactured Exclusiveley for: Hsin Ten Enterprise USA, Inc. Industry, CA 91748.
- Reason for recall
- Empirical Labs is recalling certain lots of dietary supplements due to potential for adulteration with chloramphenicol.
- Recalling firm
- Empirical Laboratories, Incorporated
- Firm location
- Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0157-2014
- Quantity
- 5157
- Distribution
- Distributed to ID, MN, and SC. Foreign distribution to Sweden. No military/govt/VA consignees.
- Initiated
- 21 October 2013
- Reported by FDA
- 20 November 2013
- Terminated
- 24 March 2014
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Lots: 3071520,3071521,3071522,3071523,3071524, 3071526
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 13 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 13 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 13. All 13 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 5 months, from 21 October 2013 to termination on 24 March 2014. 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 1 state, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter 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
Unapproved ingredients
An unapproved ingredient recall means a product contained a substance not permitted in food, most often an undisclosed pharmaceutical active found in a dietary supplement.
A preventive controls plan covers an unapproved ingredient under the clauses below. This is where the control belongs, not a finding against any firm named on this page: a recall record states a reason, and most of these recalls were initiated by the firm itself.
- 21 CFR 111
- Dietary supplement CGMP: the identity, purity, strength and composition specifications a supplement manufacturer sets and verifies for every component and finished batch.
- 21 CFR 117 subpart G
- Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
Filed under fresh produce and dietary supplements. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 13 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 12 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-11-20 | All-Natural Greens Dietary Supplement; Manufactured Exclusively for NatureRich, Maple Grove, MN 55369. | Empirical Laboratories, Incorporated | Empirical Labs is recalling certain lots of dietary supplements due to potential for adulteration with chloramphenicol. | Class II |
| 2013-11-20 | Empirical Labs Building Health SuperFuel Tropical Dietary Supplement | Empirical Laboratories, Incorporated | Empirical Labs is recalling certain lots of dietary supplements due to potential for adulteration with chloramphenicol. | Class II |
| 2013-11-20 | Dynamite Specialty Products Tri-Mins Daily Foundation, calcium, magnesium, potassium dietary supplement; 240 Capsules; Manufactured for Dynamite Marketing, Inc, Meridian, ID 83642. | Empirical Laboratories, Incorporated | Empirical Labs is recalling certain lots of dietary supplements due to potential for adulteration with chloramphenicol. | Class II |
| 2013-11-20 | Empirical Labs Building Health SuperFuel Plus Mocha Flavor; Whey protein isolate (milk); Dietary Supplement | Empirical Laboratories, Incorporated | Empirical Labs is recalling certain lots of dietary supplements due to potential for adulteration with chloramphenicol. | Class II |
| 2013-11-20 | Empirical Labs Building Health Inte-Zyme; 180 Capsules Dietary Supplement | Empirical Laboratories, Incorporated | Empirical Labs is recalling certain lots of dietary supplements due to potential for adulteration with chloramphenicol. | Class II |
| 2013-11-20 | Empirical Labs Building Health P&L Enzymes; 180 Capsules Dietary Supplement | Empirical Laboratories, Incorporated | Empirical Labs is recalling certain lots of dietary supplements due to potential for adulteration with chloramphenicol. | Class II |
| 2013-11-20 | Empirical Labs Building Health Vascuzyme; 90 Capsules Dietary Supplement | Empirical Laboratories, Incorporated | Empirical Labs is recalling certain lots of dietary supplements due to potential for adulteration with chloramphenicol. | Class II |
| 2013-11-20 | Empirical Labs Building Health Digesti-Zyme; 180 Capsules Dietary SupplementSupplement | Empirical Laboratories, Incorporated | Empirical Labs is recalling certain lots of dietary supplements due to potential for adulteration with chloramphenicol. | Class II |
| 2013-11-20 | Vive Shake Up Your Health Chocolate; Made for and distributed by renewal wellness. | Empirical Laboratories, Incorporated | Empirical Labs is recalling certain lots of dietary supplements due to potential for adulteration with chloramphenicol. | Class II |
| 2013-11-20 | Empirical Labs Building Health Superfuel; 240 Capsules Dietary Supplement | Empirical Laboratories, Incorporated | Empirical Labs is recalling certain lots of dietary supplements due to potential for adulteration with chloramphenicol. | Class II |
| 2013-11-20 | Empirical Labs Building Health Thyroid; 90 Capsules Dietary Supplement | Empirical Laboratories, Incorporated | Empirical Labs is recalling certain lots of dietary supplements due to potential for adulteration with chloramphenicol. | Class II |
| 2013-11-20 | Natural Balanced Nutrition Vanilla Energy Shake Dietary Supplement; Manufactured for NatureRich, Maple Grove, MN. | Empirical Laboratories, Incorporated | Empirical Labs is recalling certain lots of dietary supplements due to potential for adulteration with chloramphenicol. | Class II |
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 Empirical Laboratories, Incorporated
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 13 other records name this firm.
All 14 records for Empirical Laboratories, Incorporated
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21 CFR 111 is the clause behind this recall, and it is one somebody has to produce evidence for at their next audit. Krolda maps supplier documents to the clause they satisfy in FSSC 22000, IFS Food and 21 CFR 117, and routes the corrective action when the evidence is missing.
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