RED DIAMOND, European Roast, COFFEE CONCENTRATE, Mix Ratio 69 + 1, Net contents 1/2…
Red Diamond, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 24 February 2016 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Elevated pH levels in an acidified product
The record
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- Product
- RED DIAMOND, European Roast, COFFEE CONCENTRATE, Mix Ratio 69 + 1, Net contents 1/2 Gallon, Manufactured for RED DIAMOND, Birmingham, AL; Item # 111590
- Reason for recall
- Elevated pH levels in an acidified product
- Recalling firm
- Red Diamond, Inc.
- Firm location
- Moody, Alabama, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0619-2016
- Quantity
- 22 units
- Distribution
- Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio, and Texas
- Initiated
- 5 August 2015
- Reported by FDA
- 24 February 2016
- Terminated
- 24 February 2016
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- ALL CODES
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 3 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 3 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 3. 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 3 of them.
- The recall ran for 7 months, from 5 August 2015 to termination on 24 February 2016. 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 7 months after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a beverage or juice run a median of 6 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Juice is the other food with its own HACCP regulation in the United States, 21 CFR part 120, which requires a treatment achieving a 5-log reduction of the pertinent pathogen, and unpasteurised juice recalls are almost always a failure of that step or an exemption misapplied.
Filed under beverages and juice. A product can sit in more than one.
Other beverages and juice 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 Red Diamond, Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-02-24 | RED DIAMOND, COLOMBIAN, NATURALLY CAFFEINATED, Coffee Concentrate, Mix Ratio 69 + 1, Net contents 1/2 Gallon, Manufactured for RED DIAMOND, Birmingham, AL; Item # 111589 | Red Diamond, Inc. | Elevated pH levels in an acidified product | Class II |
| 2016-02-24 | RED DIAMOND, COLOMBIAN, NATURALLY DECAFFEINATED, Coffee Concentrate, Mix Ratio 69 + 1, Net contents 1/2 Gallon, Manufactured for RED DIAMOND, Birmingham, AL; Item # 111591 | Red Diamond, Inc. | Elevated pH levels in an acidified product | Class II |
All 3 records for Red Diamond, Inc.
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