There is a possibility that a part of the nozzle cap of the bottle can become dislodged through abuse (i.e. excessive chewing), and then possibly ingested, posing a potential health/safety hazard. The cap in question is no longer used by ABC and was last produced in September of 2011. Firm does not anticipate finding any impacted product in the market.

What the notice covered

Big Hug, Fruit Barrel Orange in a plastic 16 oz bottle with a sports cap, American Beverage Corp., Verona, PA.

Quoted from the record as published. If a product is not described here, this notice does not tell us whether it was affected.

What Class II means

The FDA’s middle class: use of the product may cause temporary or medically reversible health consequences, and the probability of serious harm is remote.

This is the agency’s own definition of the class. We do not assign classes and we do not rank them against each other.

The record

Agency

US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Reference number

F-0189-2014

Kind of action

Recall

Dated

2012-05-15

Terminated

2014-05-15

Status on the record

Terminated

We read it

2026-10-01

Regulates most packaged food, drugs and devices. Its recall records are published weekly in the Enforcement Report.

Products we matched to this notice

We have not matched this notice to any product in our database — usually because it named no barcode we hold. Products may still have been affected.

How we are treating it

This notice concerns the product line itself or how it was produced.

The government record

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