Stonyfield YoBaby Vanilla Organic Whole Milk Yogurt multipack 6 pack plastic cups/4 oz…

Stonyfield Farm recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 28 May 2014 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product has elevated levels of coliforms

The record

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Product

Stonyfield YoBaby Vanilla Organic Whole Milk Yogurt multipack 6 pack plastic cups/4 oz each UPC-052159701178

Reason for recall

Product has elevated levels of coliforms

Recalling firm

Stonyfield Farm

Firm location

Londonderry, New Hampshire, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1955-2014

Quantity

427 cases

Distribution

AL, DE, FL, GA, MD, NC, NJ, PA, SC, TN, VA OR, Mt, AL, CA, WA

Initiated

24 April 2014

Reported by FDA

28 May 2014

Terminated

22 September 2014

Firm notified by

Telephone

Product codes

Code Date: June 05 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 3 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 3 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 3. 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 3 of them.
• The recall ran for 5 months, from 24 April 2014 to termination on 22 September 2014. 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 13 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of milk or a dairy product run a median of 7 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Dairy recalls split between pathogen contamination in products that skipped or under-ran pasteurisation and undeclared milk in products that should never have contained it, which is the same allergen viewed from two directions.

Named in the distribution pattern: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Montana, California, Washington. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

Filed under milk and dairy. A product can sit in more than one.

Other milk and dairy 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 Stonyfield Farm

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 6 other records name this firm.

All 7 records for Stonyfield Farm

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