Honest Kids Juice Slushy Blueberry Punch, 3.5-oz. pouch, UPC 0065762211116.
The Coca-Cola Company recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 27 September 2017 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Due to a potential package design issue, there is the possibility for consumers to be injured when consuming the product from an unevenly opened pouch.
The record
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Product
Honest Kids Juice Slushy Blueberry Punch, 3.5-oz. pouch, UPC 0065762211116.
UPC
0065762211116
Reason for recall
Due to a potential package design issue, there is the possibility for consumers to be injured when consuming the product from an unevenly opened pouch.
AR, AZ, CA, CO, GA, FL IL, IN, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NH, OH, PA, TX and WA.
Initiated
16 August 2017
Reported by FDA
27 September 2017
Terminated
21 December 2017
Firm notified by
Letter
Product codes
Date/Lot Code: NOV1317A-JAN0818C
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 4 months, from 16 August 2017 to termination on 21 December 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 17 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 6 weeks after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Fresh produce is the category where contamination arrives before the facility does: irrigation water, soil amendments and field workers are the routes, and nothing downstream of the farm is a kill step for a product eaten raw.
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.
Behind every recall is a clause 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.
Recall records come from the openFDA food enforcement API, published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain. Krolda adds the hazard classification and the clause mapping; neither is an FDA determination. Always check the FDA notice before acting on a recall.
