Berres Brothers Coffee Roasters Lunch with Elvis decaffeinated whole bean coffee…

Berres Brothers, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 19 December 2012 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Berres Brothers Coffee Roasters is recalling 3 flavors of regular and decaffeinated, ground and whole bean coffees because they contain undeclared walnut. Chocolate & Peanut Butter, Monkey Mocha, and Lunch with Elvis

The record

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Product

Berres Brothers Coffee Roasters Lunch with Elvis decaffeinated whole bean coffee packaged in 12 oz. (42.5g) bags with no UPC.

Reason for recall

Berres Brothers Coffee Roasters is recalling 3 flavors of regular and decaffeinated, ground and whole bean coffees because they contain undeclared walnut. Chocolate & Peanut Butter, Monkey Mocha, and Lunch with Elvis

Recalling firm

Berres Brothers, Inc.

Firm location

Watertown, Wisconsin, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0815-2013

Quantity

2 packages

Distribution

AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, MD, MI, MN, MS,MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC,SD, TN, TX, VA, WA, AW, WI, WY. OUS: GU, AE, CA

Initiated

14 November 2012

Reported by FDA

19 December 2012

Terminated

31 January 2013

Firm notified by

Press Release

Product codes

Julian date codes 12091 - 12319 (April 1, 2012 thru November 15, 2012)

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 10 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 10 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 10. 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 10 of them.
• The recall ran for 3 months, from 14 November 2012 to termination on 31 January 2013. 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 38 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a beverage or juice run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter than usual 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: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin. 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

The allergens named in this record: peanuts, tree nuts.

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.

Other records from Berres Brothers, Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 9 other records name this firm.

All 10 records for Berres Brothers, Inc.

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