Polar Black Cherry Premium Seltzer 12 pack of 12oz cans UPC Cardboard Wrap Code…

KEURIG DR PEPPER recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 8 December 2021 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. The company has received off flavor and off aroma complaints identified with the recalled lot. After analysis it was found that the products contained unlabeled sulfites.

The record

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Product

Polar Black Cherry Premium Seltzer 12 pack of 12oz cans UPC Cardboard Wrap Code: 7153700228, UPC Can Code: 7153700110

Reason for recall

The company has received off flavor and off aroma complaints identified with the recalled lot. After analysis it was found that the products contained unlabeled sulfites.

Recalling firm

KEURIG DR PEPPER

Firm location

Frisco, Texas, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0240-2022

Quantity

7,849 cases

Distribution

Nationwide

Initiated

14 October 2021

Reported by FDA

8 December 2021

Terminated

23 June 2022

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

Product Code Date: 12/16/2022 KDC

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. 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 4 of them.
• The recall ran for 8 months, from 14 October 2021 to termination on 23 June 2022. 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 8 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a prepared meal or sandwich run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Prepared meals concentrate every other category's hazards into one package: they are assembled from many components, handled after any cook step, sold ready to eat, and carry an ingredient list long enough to lose an allergen in.

Filed under prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.

Other prepared meals and sandwiches 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 KEURIG DR PEPPER

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 6 other records name this firm.

All 7 records for KEURIG DR PEPPER

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