Sprite Zero, 12 oz. can/12 pack, UPC 049000037111; Sprite, 12 oz. can/6 pack, UPC N/A…

Coca-Cola Company (The) recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 12 October 2016 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. In a small percentage of the cans, when opened, the oval covering for the hole, which normally is pushed down into the can, instead opens upward. This produces a loud "pop" sound. Recall initiated on 4/29/16.

The record

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Product

Sprite Zero, 12 oz. can/12 pack, UPC 049000037111; Sprite, 12 oz. can/6 pack, UPC N/A; Sprite, 12 oz. can/12 pack, UPC 049000028928; Sprite, 12 oz. can/20 pack, UPC 049000014655

UPC

049000037111

Reason for recall

In a small percentage of the cans, when opened, the oval covering for the hole, which normally is pushed down into the can, instead opens upward. This produces a loud "pop" sound. Recall initiated on 4/29/16.

Recalling firm

Coca-Cola Company (The)

Firm location

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-2642-2016

Quantity

14,168 cases total

Distribution

AZ, OR, & WA

Initiated

29 April 2016

Reported by FDA

12 October 2016

Terminated

16 February 2017

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

Date Code/Lot Code - UPC 049000037111 - AUG1516TRC; UPC N/A - JAN0917TRC; UPC 049000028928 - JAN0917TRC; UPC 049000014655 - JAN0917TRC

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 10 months, from 29 April 2016 to termination on 16 February 2017. 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 2 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 months after the firm began the recall.
• The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.

Named in the distribution pattern: Arizona, Oregon. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

Other records from Coca-Cola Company (The)

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 13 other records name this firm.

All 14 records for Coca-Cola Company (The)

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