Celestial Seasonings Mandarin Orange Spice Herbal Tea in K-cup pods; packed 24 to a box

KEURIG DR PEPPER recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 22 March 2023 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product contains black tea, resulting in caffeine being undeclared.

The record

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Product

Celestial Seasonings Mandarin Orange Spice Herbal Tea in K-cup pods; packed 24 to a box

Reason for recall

Product contains black tea, resulting in caffeine being undeclared.

Recalling firm

KEURIG DR PEPPER

Firm location

Burlington, Massachusetts, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0583-2023

Quantity

1,844 - 24 ct sleeves

Distribution

AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OK, OR, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV, WY.

Initiated

3 February 2023

Reported by FDA

22 March 2023

Terminated

21 August 2023

Firm notified by

E-Mail

Product codes

UPC 099555147353 BEST BY 26 DEC 2024 LA hh:mm PL084 2360 or 2361

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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
• The recall ran for 7 months, from 3 February 2023 to termination on 21 August 2023. 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 42 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 7 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a dietary supplement run a median of 15 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Dietary supplements are regulated under their own good manufacturing practice rule, 21 CFR part 111, and they are the only food category where the dominant recall reason is an ingredient that was never declared because it is a pharmaceutical.

Named in the distribution pattern: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Wyoming. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

What this recall was for

Filed under dietary supplements, spices and seasonings and beverages and juice. A product can sit in more than one.

Other dietary supplements recalls for the same reason

These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food, recalled for a hazard this record also names. 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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