Coca-Cola, 12 fluid ounce aluminum cans in 20-packs and 32-packs, The Coca Cola Company.
Coca-Cola Company (The) recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 30 January 2013 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Complaints received of off taste/odor.
The record
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- Product
- Coca-Cola, 12 fluid ounce aluminum cans in 20-packs and 32-packs, The Coca Cola Company.
- Reason for recall
- Complaints received of off taste/odor.
- Recalling firm
- Coca-Cola Company (The)
- Firm location
- Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Classification
- Class III
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0917-2013
- Quantity
- 31,000 cases (32 cans/case and 20 cans/case)
- Distribution
- FL
- Initiated
- 2 January 2013
- Reported by FDA
- 30 January 2013
- Terminated
- 21 March 2013
- Firm notified by
- Visit
- Product codes
- UPC: 496340, Optimum Taste Code: SEP1613HWA
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class III means the FDA judged that the product was unlikely to cause harm but violated FDA labelling or manufacturing regulation. 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 3 months, from 2 January 2013 to termination on 21 March 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 1 state, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.
Other records from Coca-Cola Company (The)
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 13 other records name this firm.
All 14 records for Coca-Cola Company (The)
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