Healthy Alternatives, Digestion & Stomach Upset Support, packaged 90-capsule bottles…

National Enzyme Co recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 25 December 2013 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Firm is recalling dietary supplements containing a raw material which may contain >0.3 ppb chloramphenicol

The record

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Product

Healthy Alternatives, Digestion & Stomach Upset Support, packaged 90-capsule bottles (SKU 54897). Firm name on the label is Health Enhancement, Inc. Grass Valley, CA;

Reason for recall

Firm is recalling dietary supplements containing a raw material which may contain >0.3 ppb chloramphenicol

Recalling firm

National Enzyme Co

Firm location

Forsyth, Missouri, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0811-2014

Quantity

933 bottles

Distribution

Domestic distribution of the product is nationwide with direct accounts in 27 states in all geographical regions. Foreign distribution consists of direct accounts in the following countries: Canada, China, Malaysia, Norway, Slovakia, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom.

Initiated

30 October 2013

Reported by FDA

25 December 2013

Terminated

3 March 2015

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

Lot #'s: 54897000

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 81 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 81 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 81. 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 81 of them.
• The recall ran for 16 months, from 30 October 2013 to termination on 3 March 2015. 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 8 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a dietary supplement run a median of 15 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Dietary supplements are regulated under their own good manufacturing practice rule, 21 CFR part 111, and they are the only food category where the dominant recall reason is an ingredient that was never declared because it is a pharmaceutical.

Filed under dietary supplements. A product can sit in more than one.

Other dietary supplements 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 National Enzyme Co

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 80 other records name this firm.

All 81 records for National Enzyme Co

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