Nepro Mixed Berry, 8oz metal can

Abbott Nutrition recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 8 February 2017 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. The firm expanded recall to include additional batches. Product recalled because of off odor and taste due to microbial contamination.

The record

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Product

Nepro Mixed Berry, 8oz metal can

Reason for recall

The firm expanded recall to include additional batches. Product recalled because of off odor and taste due to microbial contamination.

Recalling firm

Abbott Nutrition

Firm location

Altavista, Virginia, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1424-2017

Quantity

362,400 units

Distribution

The product was distributed in the US as well as the following foreign countries: Guam and Puerto Rico, Israel, Kuwait, Trinidad and Tobago

Initiated

9 May 2016

Reported by FDA

8 February 2017

Terminated

31 January 2017

Firm notified by

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Product codes

Lot Number 59879RA00 Expiration Date 1Dec2016

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 6 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 6 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 6. 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 6 of them.
• The recall ran for 9 months, from 9 May 2016 to termination on 31 January 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 FDA published the enforcement report 9 months 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.

Filed under fresh produce. 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.

Other records from Abbott Nutrition

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 8 other records name this firm.

All 9 records for Abbott Nutrition

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