Big Hug Fruit Barrel Kiwi Strawberry, in a 16 oz plastic bottle with a sports cap…

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

Big Hug Fruit Barrel Kiwi Strawberry, in a 16 oz plastic bottle with a sports cap, American Beverage Corp., 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-0205-2014

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

Products bearing a "best buy" or "expiration date" earlier than 09/24/12 ONLY: UPC- 074806001622

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. All 27 of them are listed on this page.
• 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 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.

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

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 27 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 26 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.

Other fresh produce 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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