Martinelli’s Gold Medal Sparkling Cider, 8.4 oz glass bottles
Food recall F-0195-2016. Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on Nov 25, 2015.
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The short answer
Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on Nov 25, 2015. Copied from openFDA on Oct 20, 2026.
- Class II FDA’s class
- Terminated its status, in FDA’s file
- 4 states named in where it went
- 166,804 trays of 12 packs, 31,939 trays of 4-6 packs how much, in FDA’s words
Every line below is in FDA’s own words, with its source beside it. FDA’s terms are explained in FDA’s own words.
How serious is it, by FDA’s class?
Class II, the middle of FDA’s three classes.
“Products that might cause a temporary health problem, or pose only a slight threat of a serious nature. Example: a drug that is under-strength but that is not used to treat life-threatening situations.”
openFDA, in plain words, its enforcement report fields.
“Class II is a situation in which use of, or exposure to, a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.”
FDA’s rule, 21 CFR 7.3(m)(2), eCFR.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
What’s wrong with it?
Potential for glass fragments in 8.4 oz. bottles of four varieties of sparkling cider.
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Which ones are recalled?
Martinelli’s Gold Medal Sparkling Cider, 8.4 oz glass bottles; Packed in 12 pack, UPC 0 41244 00256; item number 12256; 4/6 packs, Tray UPC 0 41244-99932 3, item number 46256; 6 pack Retail UPC 0 41244 46256 8. Single 8.4 oz. bottle, UPC 041244 00256 6
166,804 trays of 12 packs, 31,939 trays of 4-6 packs, in FDA’s words.
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Codes to check against yours
12 pack:Best Before dates include 03/05/2018 to 04/11/2018. 6 pack Best Befroe dates include 3/02/2018 to 04/15/2018.
Copied exactly as FDA lists them: lot and serial numbers, dates and other codes on the product or its label.
Barcodes and drug codes
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UPC
04124400256 -
UPC
041244999323 -
UPC
041244462568 -
UPC
041244002566
As FDA’s description and codes give them; the UPCs written as digits only.
Where did it go?
FDA’s words for the “general area of initial distribution”: where the firm first shipped it.
US and Japan, Virgin Islands, India, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Panama, Aruba, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad/Tobago, Dominican Republic, US Virgin Islands, Columbia, American Samoa, Curacao, Guam, Grand Cayman Islands, St. Croix, St. Marten, St. Thomas and Fiji. Shipments to Costco in Japan, and to India and Fiji, were made to a distributor, Otis McAllister, Inc., 300 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, suite 400, Oakland, CA 94612, which then sold the product to the retailer in those countries.
The states and territories these words name
- American Samoa
- California
- Guam
- US Virgin Islands
The words say it went outside the United States too.
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Is it still going on?
Terminated, in FDA’s file.
“FDA has determined that all reasonable efforts have been made to remove or correct the violative product in accordance with the recall strategy, and proper disposition has been made according to the degree of hazard.”
openFDA, on “Terminated”, its enforcement report fields.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
- The firm began the recall on Oct 15, 2015.
- FDA classified it on Nov 13, 2015.
- FDA’s Enforcement Report published it on Nov 25, 2015.
- FDA terminated it on May 1, 2017.
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Who is recalling it?
- S. Martinelli & Co, of Watsonville, CA.
- Who began it, in FDA’s words: Voluntary: Firm initiated.
- How the firm first told its customers: Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit.
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
What this record can’t tell you
- Whether your own one is affected: compare the codes, dates and numbers above with yours. When unsure, ask the firm or the store.
- Where it went after the firm’s first shipments. FDA’s words cover the firm’s initial distribution, and, in FDA’s words, “subsequent distribution by the consignees to other parties may not be included.”
- How many have been returned, corrected or destroyed: FDA’s report doesn’t say.
- Whether anyone was hurt or fell ill: the report doesn’t say.
- How current it is: openFDA publishes FDA’s Enforcement Report weekly, after FDA does, and a firm can announce a recall weeks before it appears there. openFDA’s own caution: “This data should not be used as a method to collect data to issue alerts to the public, nor should it be used to track the lifecycle of a recall.”
- Meat, poultry and egg products are recalled by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, not FDA, and its recalls aren’t here yet: see fsis.usda.gov.
- A product with no recall here isn’t safe by that: FDA’s report lists the recalls FDA classified, and when.
Hearth Record wrote these lines; the quotations are FDA’s.
Sources
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Food recall enforcement reports.
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