1/2 gallon CN Smith brand Apple Cider; 1/2 gallon and 16 oz. Wilson Farms brand Apple…
Bevovations, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 26 July 2023 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product contains high levels of patulin (above 50ppb).
The record
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- Product
- 1/2 gallon CN Smith brand Apple Cider; 1/2 gallon and 16 oz. Wilson Farms brand Apple Cider; 1 gallon, 1/2 gallon, and 16 oz. Carlson Orchards brand Apple Cider - all packaged in HDPE bottles and shipped in corrugated closed boxes.
- Reason for recall
- Product contains high levels of patulin (above 50ppb).
- Recalling firm
- Bevovations, LLC
- Firm location
- Leominster, Massachusetts, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1253-2023
- Quantity
- 565 cases total. Wilson: 43 cases distributed (per ATT B). Carlsons: 510 cases distributed (per ATT B). CN Smith: 12 cases distributed (per ATT B).
- Distribution
- MA, PA, CT, NH
- Initiated
- 23 June 2023
- Reported by FDA
- 26 July 2023
- Terminated
- 21 August 2023
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Lot Code 171 Best By August 4, 2023.
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 8 weeks, from 23 June 2023 to termination on 21 August 2023. 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 4 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Hampshire. 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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