Gerber GoodStart SoothePro Infant Formula with Iron. Milk Based Powder.

Perrigo Nutritionals recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 12 April 2023 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Infant Formula has the potential to be contaminated with Cronobacter spp.

The record

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Product

Gerber GoodStart SoothePro Infant Formula with Iron. Milk Based Powder. Stage 1, 0 - 12 Months. Nestle Infant Nutrition, Arlington, VA 22209. Packaged in the following sizes: 1. Net Wt 12.4 oz. (351 g) (6 cans per case) UPC 050000-62400 3 2. Net Wt 30.6 oz. (1.91 lb / 867 g) (4 cans per case) UPC 0 50000-49498 9 3. Net Wt 19.4 oz. (1.21 lb/549 g) (4 cans per case) UPC 0 50000-48722 6 4. Product only sold in Canada: 942g (4 cans per case) UPC 0 55000-38369 1.

UPC

0500006240032

Reason for recall

Infant Formula has the potential to be contaminated with Cronobacter spp.

Recalling firm

Perrigo Nutritionals

Firm location

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0732-2023

Quantity

182,888 cans

Distribution

Nationwide and Canada.

Initiated

17 March 2023

Reported by FDA

12 April 2023

Terminated

21 March 2025

Firm notified by

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Product codes

Gerber Good Start SootheProTM 12.4 oz: Lot 300357651Z - USE BY 04JUL2024 Lot 300457651Z - USE BY 05JUL2024 Lot 300557651Z - USE BY 06JUL2024 Lot 300557652Z - USE BY 06JUL2024 Lot 300757651Z - USE BY 08JUL2024 Lot 300857651Z - USE BY 09JUL2024 Lot 301057651Z - USE BY 11JUL2024 Lot 301057652Z - USE BY 11JUL2024 Lot 301157651Z - USE BY 12JUL2024 Gerber Good Start SootheProTM 30.6 oz: Lot 301357652Z - USE BY 14JUL2024 Lot 301457652Z - USE BY 15JUL2024 Lot 301557651Z - USE BY 16JUL2024 Gerber Good Start SootheProTM 19.4 oz: Lot 301557652Z - USE BY 16JUL2024I

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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
• The recall ran for 2.0 years, from 17 March 2023 to termination on 21 March 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 FDA published the enforcement report 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of infant formula or baby food run a median of 10 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Infant formula is the most tightly regulated food in the United States because it is frequently the only thing an infant eats, so a nutrient deviation is a hazard in a way it is not in any other product.

Filed under infant formula and baby food and milk and dairy. A product can sit in more than one.

Other infant formula and baby food recalls

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