Gerber Snacks for Baby Soothe 'n' Chew TEETHING STICKS Strawberry Apple NET WT 3.2 OZ…
Nestle-USA, Inc. (Corporate Office) recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 5 March 2025 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Firm received complaints of infant choking.
The record
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- Product
- Gerber Snacks for Baby Soothe 'n' Chew TEETHING STICKS Strawberry Apple NET WT 3.2 OZ (90g) UPC 0 15000 04518 7 GERBER PRODUCTS CO., FREMONT, MI 49413
- UPC
- 015000045187
- Reason for recall
- Firm received complaints of infant choking.
- Recalling firm
- Nestle-USA, Inc. (Corporate Office)
- Firm location
- Arlington, Virginia, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0578-2025
- Quantity
- 314,398cs/5/3.2 oz boxes
- Distribution
- The products were shipped to distribution centers in the following states: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI and Puerto Rico.
- Initiated
- 31 January 2025
- Reported by FDA
- 5 March 2025
- Terminated
- 22 July 2025
- Firm notified by
- Press Release
- Product codes
- All lots
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class I means the FDA judged a reasonable probability that the product would cause serious health consequences or death. 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 2 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 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. 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 2 of them.
- The recall ran for 6 months, from 31 January 2025 to termination on 22 July 2025. 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 44 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was about typical 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
Filed under fresh produce and snacks and confectionery. A product can sit in more than one.
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 Nestle-USA, Inc. (Corporate Office)
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 7 other records name this firm.
All 8 records for Nestle-USA, Inc. (Corporate Office)
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