RICKER HILL ORCHARDS APPLE CIDER McIntosh Blend, 1 GAL (128 FL OZ) and 1/2 GAL (64 FL…
Ricker Hill Farms, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 27 May 2020 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product contains high levels of patulin.
The record
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- Product
- RICKER HILL ORCHARDS APPLE CIDER McIntosh Blend, 1 GAL (128 FL OZ) and 1/2 GAL (64 FL OZ); UPC: 0 74613 80009 8; MADE IN MAINE; KEEP REFRIGERATED; Produced by Ricker Hill Orchards, Turner, ME 04282
- UPC
- 074613800098
- Reason for recall
- Product contains high levels of patulin.
- Recalling firm
- Ricker Hill Farms, Inc.
- Firm location
- Turner, Maine, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0952-2020
- Quantity
- 455 Cases
- Distribution
- Maine
- Initiated
- 29 April 2020
- Reported by FDA
- 27 May 2020
- Terminated
- 13 July 2020
- Firm notified by
- Telephone
- Product codes
- Dated 5/17/2020
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 2 months, from 29 April 2020 to termination on 13 July 2020. 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 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter 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.
Filed under fresh produce and beverages and juice. A product can sit in more than one.
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