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Pasteurized Donor Human Milk, Frozen then thawed. Product is packaged in 4 oz. glass bottle with metal lid and plastic seal. A bar code is present on each label but there is NO UPC codes. Northwest Mothers Milk Bank · reported 2016-01-20
Terminated This recall has been closed out by the agency.
- Reason for recall
- Report by recipient hospital found a foreign particle in a single bottle of mother's milk once thawed and opened. Finder reported the particle was a fruit fly or sugar ant.
- Classification
- Class II
- Recall initiated
- 2015-11-10
- Reported by the agency
- 2016-01-20
- Closed out (terminated)
- 2016-01-25
- Recalling firm
- Northwest Mothers Milk Bank
Portland, OR
United StatesThis is the firm that issued the recall — commonly a distributor or processor. It is not the origin of contamination.
- Distribution (the agency's own words)
- distributed in Oregon
- States we parsed from that text
- OR
The agency named these states. Parse method explicit_state_list, confidence high.
- Food category
- Dairy Fish & seafood Frozen prepared foodsderived
Assigned by a reviewed keyword rulebook over the product description, not by the agency.
- Recall type
- Voluntary: Firm initiated
- Recall number
- F-0468-2016
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