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Samuel Adams Brewery Co recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 28 December 2016 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Due to concerns of re-fermentation, bottles may burst under increased pressure.

The record

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Product

Apple Orchard Crisp Apple Hard Cider Three packages sizes: ¿ Loose case = 24  12 oz bottles ¿ 12 pack = 12  12 oz bottles, shipped as 2  12 packs per case ¿ 4  6 pack = 6  12 oz bottles per pack, shipped as 4  6 packs per case

Reason for recall

Due to concerns of re-fermentation, bottles may burst under increased pressure.

Recalling firm

Samuel Adams Brewery Co

Firm location

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0832-2017

Quantity

17492 packages

Distribution

No international firms. Wholesalers in the following states: SC, AL, TN, MS, KY, OH, IN, MI, IA, WI, MN, SD, ND, MT, IL, MO, NE, LA, AR, TX, CO, NM,

Initiated

22 July 2015

Reported by FDA

28 December 2016

Terminated

14 March 2017

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

June 2016 1665C & June 2016 1805C

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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
• The recall ran for 20 months, from 22 July 2015 to termination on 14 March 2017. 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 21 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 17 months 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.

Named in the distribution pattern: Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

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

Other fresh produce 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.

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