The Boston Beer Co issued a recall of around 25% of beer bottles it recently shipped after it discovered faults that might cause bits of glass to break off & fall into the bottles. Michelle Sullivan, spokeswoman for the S Boston brewer of Samuel Adams beers, said the bottles were supplied by O-I's plant in Auburn, New York. However, in a press release on 8 April 2008, O-I said its investigations had indicated that the bottles supplied to the brewer were manufactured to O-I's normal manufacturing specifications & tolerances. O-I said it would continue to investigate the root cause of the issue, which was unknown. Ms. Sullivan said the company does not yet know how many bottles are affected. But she said the company estimates that fewer than 1M bottles need to be recalled. About a quarter of the company's beer bottles are supplied by the Auburn plant. Company executives believe that fewer than 1% of the bottles from the Auburn plant are defective. But they cannot tell where those bottles went, so they are recalling all of them to be safe
