Simple Truth Organic Banana, Strawberry & Apple Fruit Puree with Nonfat Greek Yogurt…

Perrigo Company PLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 20 March 2019 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Perrigo Company is initiating a voluntary recall of one production lot of Simple Truth Organic Banana, Strawberry and Apple Fruit Puree with Nonfat Greek Yogurt, LOT L8159, best by 08/06/2019 due to improper labeling that does not indicate the presence of milk.

The record

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Product

Simple Truth Organic Banana, Strawberry & Apple Fruit Puree with Nonfat Greek Yogurt, 113 g, packed in a laminate pouch, Each case has 6 cartons with 6 pouches per carton. Total of 36 pouches per case.

Reason for recall

Perrigo Company is initiating a voluntary recall of one production lot of Simple Truth Organic Banana, Strawberry and Apple Fruit Puree with Nonfat Greek Yogurt, LOT L8159, best by 08/06/2019 due to improper labeling that does not indicate the presence of milk.

Recalling firm

Perrigo Company PLC

Firm location

Allegan, Michigan, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1155-2019

Quantity

106,632 pouches.

Distribution

Domestic: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. No International/VA/DOD

Initiated

21 January 2019

Reported by FDA

20 March 2019

Terminated

21 May 2019

Firm notified by

Telephone

Product codes

L8159, best by 08/06/19, UPC 041260384943

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 4 months, from 21 January 2019 to termination on 21 May 2019. 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 8 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of milk or a dairy product run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Dairy recalls split between pathogen contamination in products that skipped or under-ran pasteurisation and undeclared milk in products that should never have contained it, which is the same allergen viewed from two directions.

Filed under milk and dairy and fresh produce. A product can sit in more than one.

Other milk and dairy 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.

Other records from Perrigo Company PLC

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