GoGo squeeZ, non-organic Apple Sauce pouches, 3.2 oz., 12x4, Apple/Mixed Berry/Carrot…

Materne North America Corp recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 27 April 2016 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Materne North America Corp. is voluntarily recalling specific packages of GoGo squeeZ¿ applesauce pouches due to potential adulteration from food product residue.

The record

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Product

GoGo squeeZ, non-organic Apple Sauce pouches, 3.2 oz., 12x4, Apple/Mixed Berry/Carrot (Boulder Berry) Flavor Variety

Reason for recall

Materne North America Corp. is voluntarily recalling specific packages of GoGo squeeZ¿ applesauce pouches due to potential adulteration from food product residue.

Recalling firm

Materne North America Corp

Firm location

New York, New York, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1117-2016

Quantity

4,780,784 cases

Distribution

Domestic: Nationwide- AL; AR; AZ; CA; CO;CT; DE; FL; GA; HI; IA; ID; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; NC; ND; NE; NH; NJ; NM; NV; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; SC; SD;TN; TX; UT; VA; VT; WA; WI No VA/DOD Foreign: Canada, France

Initiated

4 March 2016

Reported by FDA

27 April 2016

Terminated

23 March 2017

Firm notified by

Press Release

Product codes

GoGo squeeZ, non-organic Apple Sauce pouches, 3.2 oz., 12x4, Apple/Mixed Berry/Carrot (Boulder Berry) Flavor Variety, Best Before Date of 12/4/15-3/4/17, Item No:s 120445. Pouches have 5 digit Production Codes beginning with "US", and followed by 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07 or 08; Cases have a 6-digit code ending in the last two digits 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07 or 08.

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 17 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 17 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 17. 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 17 of them.
• The recall ran for 13 months, from 4 March 2016 to termination on 23 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 43 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 8 weeks 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: Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Washington. 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

Filed under fresh produce and sauces, dips and condiments. A product can sit in more than one.

Other fresh produce 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 Materne North America Corp

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 16 other records name this firm.

All 17 records for Materne North America Corp

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