Apricot Chai Tea, 8 oz. Loose. UPC 41427-96317
Cedar Lake Tea recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 19 December 2018 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Organic Apricot Chai Loose Tea is being recalled due to potential glass contamination.
The record
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- Product
- Apricot Chai Tea, 8 oz. Loose. UPC 41427-96317
- UPC
- 4142796317
- Reason for recall
- Organic Apricot Chai Loose Tea is being recalled due to potential glass contamination.
- Recalling firm
- Cedar Lake Tea
- Firm location
- New Richmond, Wisconsin, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0702-2019
- Quantity
- 34.4 lbs.
- Distribution
- IA, IL, IN, KY, MI, MO
- Initiated
- 5 November 2018
- Reported by FDA
- 19 December 2018
- Terminated
- 19 June 2019
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Lot # 8149
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 5 November 2018 to termination on 19 June 2019. 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 weeks 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri. 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
Foreign material
A foreign material recall means something that is not food was found in food: metal, plastic, glass, wood or insect matter, usually shed by equipment during processing.
A preventive controls plan covers foreign material under the clauses below. This is where the control belongs, not a finding against any firm named on this page: a recall record states a reason, and most of these recalls were initiated by the firm itself.
- 21 CFR 117.40
- Equipment and utensils: plant equipment designed and maintained so it cannot contaminate food with lubricants, fuel, metal fragments or contaminated water.
- 21 CFR 117.80(c)
- Manufacturing operations: the measures that protect food from contamination during processing, including the effective ones against metal and other extraneous material.
- 21 CFR 117.150
- Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.
Filed under beverages and juice. A product can sit in more than one.
Other beverages and juice 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.
All 2018 recalls · All FDA food recall data
21 CFR 117.40 is the clause behind this recall, and it is one somebody has to produce evidence for at their next audit. Krolda maps supplier documents to the clause they satisfy in FSSC 22000, IFS Food and 21 CFR 117, and routes the corrective action when the evidence is missing.
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