Rugby Poly Vitamin Liquid with Iron, 50 ml

Pharmatech Llc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 17 June 2015 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Packaging label does not match individual product labeling. Outside packaging may have incorrect Lot/Exp and product identity.

The record

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Product

Rugby Poly Vitamin Liquid with Iron, 50 ml

Reason for recall

Packaging label does not match individual product labeling. Outside packaging may have incorrect Lot/Exp and product identity.

Recalling firm

Pharmatech Llc

Firm location

Davie, Florida, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-2406-2015

Quantity

52,554 units

Distribution

NY, IL, TX, UT, MN, AL, CO, CA, WA, VA, MA, AZ, GA, KY, HI, OH, NC, MI, FL, PA, MO, MS, VT, ND, IN, NH, NJ, OR, TN, OK, NE, WI, MO, CT, LA, SC, AR, PR

Initiated

9 March 2015

Reported by FDA

17 June 2015

Terminated

5 July 2016

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

UPC: 05368-53080 Lot: 21021410

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 2 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 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. All 2 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 16 months, from 9 March 2015 to termination on 5 July 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 37 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 months after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a dietary supplement run a median of 15 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Dietary supplements are regulated under their own good manufacturing practice rule, 21 CFR part 111, and they are the only food category where the dominant recall reason is an ingredient that was never declared because it is a pharmaceutical.

Named in the distribution pattern: New York, Illinois, Texas, Utah, Minnesota, Alabama, Colorado, California, Washington, Virginia, Massachusetts, Arizona, Georgia, Kentucky, Hawaii, Ohio, North Carolina, Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Mississippi, Vermont, North Dakota, Indiana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Louisiana, South Carolina, Arkansas, Puerto Rico. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

Filed under dietary supplements. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 2 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 1 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.

Other dietary supplements 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 Pharmatech Llc

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 41 other records name this firm.

All 42 records for Pharmatech LLC

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