Guzzler Island Punch 20 fl. oz. PET plastic bottle with a sports cap, American Beverage…

American Beverage Corp recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 27 November 2013 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. There is a possibility that a part of the nozzle cap of the bottle can become dislodged through abuse (i.e. excessive chewing) then possibly ingested, and posing a potential health/safety hazard. The cap in question is no longer used by ABC and was last produced in September of 2011. Firm does not anticipate finding any impacted product in the market.

The record

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Product

Guzzler Island Punch 20 fl. oz. PET plastic bottle with a sports cap, American Beverage Corporation, Verona PA.

Reason for recall

There is a possibility that a part of the nozzle cap of the bottle can become dislodged through abuse (i.e. excessive chewing) then possibly ingested, and posing a potential health/safety hazard. The cap in question is no longer used by ABC and was last produced in September of 2011. Firm does not anticipate finding any impacted product in the market.

Recalling firm

American Beverage Corp

Firm location

Verona, Pennsylvania, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0192-2014

Quantity

250,000 cases-total for all products

Distribution

Nationwide.

Initiated

15 May 2012

Reported by FDA

27 November 2013

Terminated

15 May 2014

Firm notified by

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Product codes

The following product bearing a "best buy" or "expiration date" earlier than 09/24/12 ONLY: Flavor and UPC code: Island Punch, 018397000015

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 27 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 27 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 27. 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 27 of them.
• The recall ran for 2.0 years, from 15 May 2012 to termination on 15 May 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 FDA published the enforcement report 18 months after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a beverage or juice run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Juice is the other food with its own HACCP regulation in the United States, 21 CFR part 120, which requires a treatment achieving a 5-log reduction of the pertinent pathogen, and unpasteurised juice recalls are almost always a failure of that step or an exemption misapplied.

Filed under beverages and juice. A product can sit in more than one.

Other beverages and juice 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 American Beverage Corp

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 26 other records name this firm.

All 27 records for American Beverage Corp

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