Class IIITerminated · reported 2023-09-13

Ruby Mountain Spring Water 3 and 5 gallon plastic water jugs

RUBY MOUNTAIN SPRING WATER recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 13 September 2023 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Firm's sample revealed positive findings for coliforms.

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Product: Ruby Mountain Spring Water 3 and 5 gallon plastic water jugs
Reason for recall: Firm's sample revealed positive findings for coliforms.
Recalling firm: RUBY MOUNTAIN SPRING WATER
Firm location: Winnemucca, Nevada, United States
Classification: Class III
Status: Terminated
Recall number: F-1492-2023
Quantity: 1,350 bottles
Distribution: U.S. distribution to the following: NV. No foreign distribution.
Initiated: 1 August 2023
Reported by FDA: 13 September 2023
Terminated: 10 September 2024
Firm notified by: Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes: N/A

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Class III means the FDA judged that the product was unlikely to cause harm but violated FDA labelling or manufacturing regulation. 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 13 months, from 1 August 2023 to termination on 10 September 2024. 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 6 weeks after the firm began the recall.
The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.

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