Trader Joe's Apple Juice 64 FL OZ (2 QT) 1.89 L UPC 00746854 Dist. & Sold Exclusively…
Clement Pappas & Co., Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 29 May 2013 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. One of this products ingredients, Organic Apple Juice Concentrate, was found to contain patulin levels between 57.4-100 ppb.
The record
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Product
Trader Joe's Apple Juice 64 FL OZ (2 QT) 1.89 L UPC 00746854 Dist. & Sold Exclusively By: Trader Joe's Monrovia, CA 91016
Reason for recall
One of this products ingredients, Organic Apple Juice Concentrate, was found to contain patulin levels between 57.4-100 ppb.
Lot number Exp Date 3690230281 5/25/2014 3690230351 6/5/2014 3690230421 6/13/2014 3690230491 6/20/2014 3690230561 6/27/2014 3690230631 7/3/2014 3690230701 7/11/2014
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 18 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 18 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 18. 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 18 of them.
The recall ran for 23 months, from 11 April 2013 to termination on 2 March 2015. 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 7 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.
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.
Behind every recall is a clause somebody has to produce evidence for at their next audit. Krolda maps supplier documents to the clause they satisfy in FSSC 22000, IFS Food and 21 CFR 117, and routes the corrective action when the evidence is missing.
Recall records come from the openFDA food enforcement API, published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain. Krolda adds the hazard classification and the clause mapping; neither is an FDA determination. Always check the FDA notice before acting on a recall.
