SPARKLING SOUR CHERRY JUICE DRINK, 6/34 oz., glass bottles

Gourmet International Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 29 August 2018 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Gourmet International Inc. is voluntarily recalling LItaly Sparkling Juice Beverages due to packaging concerns following multiple reports of leaking caps.

The record

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Product

SPARKLING SOUR CHERRY JUICE DRINK, 6/34 oz., glass bottles

Reason for recall

Gourmet International Inc. is voluntarily recalling LItaly Sparkling Juice Beverages due to packaging concerns following multiple reports of leaking caps.

Recalling firm

Gourmet International Inc.

Firm location

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1958-2018

Quantity

403 Assorted cases / 2418 units (total)

Distribution

Domestic: IL MI WI CA MN OH WA VA Product Imported from Turkey

Initiated

5 July 2018

Reported by FDA

29 August 2018

Terminated

4 October 2018

Firm notified by

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Product codes

All L'ITALY SPARKLING FRUIT JUICE BEVERAGES products, all lot/date codes 914517 SPARKLING SOUR CHERRY JUICE DRINK UPC 1-91414-00517-7 6/34OZ

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 6 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 6 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 6. All 6 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 3 months, from 5 July 2018 to termination on 4 October 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 8 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a beverage or juice run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Juice is the other food with its own HACCP regulation in the United States, 21 CFR part 120, which requires a treatment achieving a 5-log reduction of the pertinent pathogen, and unpasteurised juice recalls are almost always a failure of that step or an exemption misapplied.

Filed under beverages and juice. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

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Other beverages and juice 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 Gourmet International Inc.

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 Gourmet International Inc.

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