Java Monster Loco Moca Coffee & Energy, Net Wt. 15 fl. oz. (443 mL); UPC 0 70847 81271…
Monster Energy Company recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 20 September 2017 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product was distributed without going through the retort step.
The record
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- Product
- Java Monster Loco Moca Coffee & Energy, Net Wt. 15 fl. oz. (443 mL); UPC 0 70847 81271 5; INGREDIENTS: BREWED COFFEE (FILTERED WATER., COFFEE, CONDENSED SKIM MILK. SUGAR, HEAVY CREAM. GLUCOSE. NATURAL FLAVORS. TAURlNE,. SODIUM CITRATE, MICiOCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE. PANAX GINSENG EXTRACT, ASCORBIC ACID (VIT. C), TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, CARRAGEENAN, CAFFEINE, SODIUM ALGINATE. NIACINAMIDE (Vit B3), SUCRALOSE. COLOR ADDED. D-GLUCURONOLACTONE, GUARANA EXTRACT. INOSITOL, L-CARtJITINE L¿TARTRATE. PYRIQDXINE HYDROCHLORIDE (Vit. B6), RIBOFLAVIN (Vit. B1). MALTODEXTRIN. CONTAINS MILK .
- UPC
- 070847812715
- Reason for recall
- Product was distributed without going through the retort step.
- Recalling firm
- Monster Energy Company
- Firm location
- Corona, California, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-3545-2017
- Quantity
- 7,965 cases
- Distribution
- To distributors in KS, MS, HI, NC, AL, GA, IA and NJ.
- Initiated
- 17 August 2017
- Reported by FDA
- 20 September 2017
- Terminated
- 6 March 2018
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Batch 0365, Lot F1728BF 0
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 7 months, from 17 August 2017 to termination on 6 March 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 distribution pattern names 7 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: Mississippi, Hawaii, North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Iowa, New Jersey. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
What this recall was for
Process deviation
A process deviation recall means the process ran outside its validated limits: a thermal process that did not reach its time and temperature, a pH that drifted, or a seal that failed.
A preventive controls plan covers a process deviation 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 113
- Thermally processed low-acid foods in hermetically sealed containers: the scheduled process, its establishment by a competent authority, and the records proving every container received it.
- 21 CFR 114
- Acidified foods: the controls on equilibrium pH at or below 4.6, and the process that achieves it.
- 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 milk and dairy, dietary supplements and beverages and juice. A product can sit in more than one.
Other milk and dairy 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.
All 2017 recalls · All FDA food recall data
21 CFR 113 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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