Master Cases, Product Code #8534 (6-12 count retail boxes) Label of master case bears…

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 31 July 2013 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Regular (caffeinated) Coffee individual K-cup packs were packaged inside multi unit retail boxes labeled Decaffeinated Coffee.

The record

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Product

Master Cases, Product Code #8534 (6-12 count retail boxes) Label of master case bears the name: Donut House K -Cup Packs. 12-Count Retail Boxes, Product Code #8934, Donut House Decaffeinated K-Cup Packs

Reason for recall

Regular (caffeinated) Coffee individual K-cup packs were packaged inside multi unit retail boxes labeled Decaffeinated Coffee.

Recalling firm

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters

Firm location

Waterbury, Vermont, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1584-2013

Quantity

288,144 kcups/4,002 master cases (6 retail boxes per case)/ 24,012 retail boxes

Distribution

TX, LA, MD, IN, IL, NE, NC, MN, WI, FL, AL

Initiated

3 May 2013

Reported by FDA

31 July 2013

Terminated

24 March 2016

Firm notified by

Letter

Product codes

Best By: 15NOV2013 PL113 3049

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 2.9 years, from 3 May 2013 to termination on 24 March 2016. 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 11 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 months after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a bakery product run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Bakery is overwhelmingly an allergen category rather than a pathogen one: baking is a kill step, but a bakery runs many recipes down shared lines, so the failure that recalls a bakery product is usually a label or a changeover.

Named in the distribution pattern: Texas, Louisiana, Maryland, Indiana, Illinois, Nebraska, North Carolina, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Florida, Alabama. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

Filed under bakery. A product can sit in more than one.

Other bakery 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 Green Mountain Coffee Roasters

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.

All 4 records for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters

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