Gatorade, Melon, 20.3 FL OZ, Cont. Neto (600 mL)

The Gatorade Puerto Rico Co recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 19 December 2018 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product is contaminated with mold.

The record

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Product

Gatorade, Melon, 20.3 FL OZ, Cont. Neto (600 mL)

Reason for recall

Product is contaminated with mold.

Recalling firm

The Gatorade Puerto Rico Co

Firm location

Miami, Florida, United States

Classification

Class III

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0708-2019

Quantity

(Quantities distributed are within Combo Multipack Item #8)

Distribution

Domestic Consignees only. No foreign nor government consignees.

Initiated

9 November 2018

Reported by FDA

19 December 2018

Terminated

3 September 2019

Firm notified by

Letter

Product codes

24/600 mL: lot 002259, Exp. Date 7/23/2019

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 is one of 8 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 8 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 8. 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 8 of them.
• The recall ran for 10 months, from 9 November 2018 to termination on 3 September 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 FDA published the enforcement report 6 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer than usual 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.

What this recall was for

Filed under fresh produce. A product can sit in more than one.

Other fresh produce 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 The Gatorade Puerto Rico Co

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 The Gatorade Puerto Rico Co

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