Dorothy Lynch Homestyle 8 oz., 16 oz., and 32 oz. bottles (12/case) and 128 oz.

Tasty Toppings Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 16 November 2016 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. The firm issued a press release on May 6, 2016, which encouraged consumers with affected bottles to return the product to the store for a refund. The recall will extend through the wholesale and retail distribution chain via scripted phone notification. The firm has informed distributors/retails to remove the product from shelves and track by using the best by date and sku. Products should be destroyed. The information has been posted on the firm website.

The record

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Product

Dorothy Lynch Homestyle 8 oz., 16 oz., and 32 oz. bottles (12/case) and 128 oz. bottles (4/case)

Reason for recall

The firm issued a press release on May 6, 2016, which encouraged consumers with affected bottles to return the product to the store for a refund. The recall will extend through the wholesale and retail distribution chain via scripted phone notification. The firm has informed distributors/retails to remove the product from shelves and track by using the best by date and sku. Products should be destroyed. The information has been posted on the firm website.

Recalling firm

Tasty Toppings Inc

Firm location

Duncan, Nebraska, United States

Classification

Class III

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0324-2017

Quantity

3617 12-8oz. bottle cases, 27218 12-16oz. bottle cases, 22241 12-32oz. bottle cases, and 9082 4-gallon cases

Distribution

Coverage is predominately the Midwest, specifically Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado and South Dakota. Smaller concentration of stores in ND, WY, UT, OK, TX, MN and WI.

Initiated

6 May 2016

Reported by FDA

16 November 2016

Terminated

13 December 2017

Firm notified by

Press Release

Product codes

Affected Production Dates are: "Home Style 8, 16 or 32 oz. bottles: "Case dates between 12/22/16 and 4/11/16 are recalled. "Gallons with case dates between 12/28/2015 and 4/10/2016 are recalled. Affected Best By dates are: "Home Style 8, 16 or 32 oz. bottles: "Bottles with Best By dates between 9/19/16 and 1/7/16 are recalled. "Gallons with Best By dates between 6/16/16 and 10/11/16 are recalled.

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

• Class III means the FDA judged that the product was unlikely to cause harm but violated FDA labelling or manufacturing regulation. 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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
• The recall ran for 19 months, from 6 May 2016 to termination on 13 December 2017. 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 6 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 6 months after the firm began the recall.
• The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.

Named in the distribution pattern: Wyoming, Utah, Oklahoma, Texas, Minnesota, Wisconsin. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

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