Odwalla Superfood fruit smoothie 15.2 oz. (450mL) plastic bottle; Sold in 8 pack case…
The Coca-Cola Company recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 25 July 2018 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. There is the potential for a limited quantity of bottles to contain foreign matter in the form of tiny pieces of wire metal fragments.
The record
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- Product
- Odwalla Superfood fruit smoothie 15.2 oz. (450mL) plastic bottle; Sold in 8 pack case Unit UPC: 000-14054-06405-5 Odwalla Life Food- Canada only - Unit UPC: 000-14054-03125-5 Ingredients: Apple Juice from concentrate, peach and mango purees from concentrate, banana puree, less than 1% OF, Spirulina, natural flavors, lemon juice concentrate (for tartness) vitamin C (ascorbic acid) kale, wheat grass, barley grass, wheat sprouts, Jerusalem artichoke, Nova Scotia dulse Pectin and gellan gum. Contains Wheat. Distributed by Odwalla Inc., San Leandro, CA 94577 Pasteurized. Must be refrigerated
- UPC
- 00014054064055
- Reason for recall
- There is the potential for a limited quantity of bottles to contain foreign matter in the form of tiny pieces of wire metal fragments.
- Recalling firm
- The Coca-Cola Company
- Firm location
- Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1656-2018
- Quantity
- 14,870 cases
- Distribution
- Alaska, Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming and Canada.
- Initiated
- 13 July 2018
- Reported by FDA
- 25 July 2018
- Terminated
- 23 August 2018
- Firm notified by
- Letter
- Product codes
- AUG 3118 AS; SEP 0218 AS; SEP 0318 AS; Canadian distribution: SEP 0218 AS.
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 6 weeks, from 13 July 2018 to termination on 23 August 2018. 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 12 days 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.
What this recall was for
Foreign material
A foreign material recall means something that is not food was found in food: metal, plastic, glass, wood or insect matter, usually shed by equipment during processing.
A preventive controls plan covers foreign material under the clauses below. This is where the control belongs, not a finding against any firm named on this page: a recall record states a reason, and most of these recalls were initiated by the firm itself.
- 21 CFR 117.40
- Equipment and utensils: plant equipment designed and maintained so it cannot contaminate food with lubricants, fuel, metal fragments or contaminated water.
- 21 CFR 117.80(c)
- Manufacturing operations: the measures that protect food from contamination during processing, including the effective ones against metal and other extraneous material.
- 21 CFR 117.150
- Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.
Filed under fresh produce, dietary supplements and beverages and juice. A product can sit in more than one.
Other fresh produce recalls for the same reason
These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food, recalled for a hazard this record also names. 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 The Coca-Cola Company
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 14 other records name this firm.
All 15 records for The Coca-Cola Company
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21 CFR 117.40 is the clause behind this recall, and it is one 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.
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