Hiland Orange Juice, 1 GAL (3.78 L) Hiland Dairy, Springfield, MO.

Hiland Dairy Foods Company LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 14 February 2018 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Milk allergen was detected in one lot of orange juice and one lot of citrus drink. Milk is not an ingredient declared on the label.

The record

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Product

Hiland Orange Juice, 1 GAL (3.78 L) Hiland Dairy, Springfield, MO.

Reason for recall

Milk allergen was detected in one lot of orange juice and one lot of citrus drink. Milk is not an ingredient declared on the label.

Recalling firm

Hiland Dairy Foods Company LLC

Firm location

Springfield, Missouri, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0789-2018

Quantity

522 1-Gallon containers

Distribution

Distributed to retailers in IA, KS, and NE

Initiated

11 January 2018

Reported by FDA

14 February 2018

Terminated

23 April 2018

Firm notified by

Telephone

Product codes

BEST BY FEB 05 18, 3108

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 is one of 2 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 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. 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 2 of them.
• The recall ran for 3 months, from 11 January 2018 to termination on 23 April 2018. 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 2 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of milk or a dairy product run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Dairy recalls split between pathogen contamination in products that skipped or under-ran pasteurisation and undeclared milk in products that should never have contained it, which is the same allergen viewed from two directions.

Named in the distribution pattern: Kansas, Nebraska. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

Filed under milk and dairy and beverages and juice. A product can sit in more than one.

Other milk and dairy 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 Hiland Dairy Foods Company LLC

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 Hiland Dairy Foods Company LLC

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