Class IITerminated · reported 2026-07-29

Brooklyn Roasting Company Pasteurized Cold Brew Concentrate; 2.5gal; bag in a box…

Brooklyn Roasting Works LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 29 July 2026 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Ambient storage of the product may lead to Clostridium botulinum toxin formation.

The record

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Product: Brooklyn Roasting Company Pasteurized Cold Brew Concentrate; 2.5gal; bag in a box distributed between 04/01/2026 and 06/20/2026.
Reason for recall: Ambient storage of the product may lead to Clostridium botulinum toxin formation.
Recalling firm: Brooklyn Roasting Works LLC
Firm location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Classification: Class II
Status: Terminated
Recall number: H-1179-2026
Quantity: 1219 units
Distribution: NY and NJ
Initiated: 2 July 2026
Reported by FDA: 29 July 2026
Terminated: 13 August 2026
Firm notified by: Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes: Best By codes range: 063026 through 093026

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 6 weeks, from 2 July 2026 to termination on 13 August 2026. 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 4 weeks 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: New York, 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

Chemical contamination

A chemical contamination recall covers a substance that is harmful in food and was never meant to be there: a heavy metal, a cleaning chemical, a pesticide residue, or a natural toxin such as aflatoxin or histamine.

A preventive controls plan covers chemical contamination 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 117.35(b): Substances used in cleaning and sanitizing: toxic materials stored, identified and used so they cannot contaminate food, food-contact surfaces or packaging.
21 CFR 117 subpart G: Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
21 CFR 117.130(b)(1)(ii): Hazard analysis: identifying the known or reasonably foreseeable chemical hazards, including radiological hazards, pesticide and drug residues, natural toxins and food decomposition.

Clostridium botulinum

Clostridium botulinum recalls are recalls of the process, not of a test result: the organism produces its toxin without oxygen, so a low-acid food in a sealed container that missed its scheduled process is recalled whether or not toxin was ever found.

A preventive controls plan covers a botulism risk 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 108.35: Emergency permit control: the registration and process filing a low-acid canned food processor must hold before it may operate.

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21 CFR 117.35(b) 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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