Victoria Taylor's Seasonings - New Orleans - 5.0 oz. UPC: 666227015090, packaged in a…

Victoria Gourmet, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 31 October 2018 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product labeling is incorrect.

The record

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Product

Victoria Taylor's Seasonings - New Orleans - 5.0 oz. UPC: 666227015090, packaged in a glass jar with lid

UPC

666227015090

Reason for recall

Product labeling is incorrect.

Recalling firm

Victoria Gourmet, Inc.

Firm location

Woburn, Massachusetts, United States

Classification

Class III

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0060-2019

Quantity

17 jars

Distribution

IN, WA, AK, CA, PA, HI, NY, MO, CA, TX, WI, CT, DE, NC, MI, FL, SC, MA

Initiated

21 September 2018

Reported by FDA

31 October 2018

Terminated

24 October 2018

Firm notified by

Letter

Product codes

Lot#1-289079

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

• Class III means the FDA judged that the product was unlikely to cause harm but violated FDA labelling or manufacturing regulation. 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 is one of 2 records covering the same recall event. The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so a recall of a product line appears here many times. Counting these records as 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. Every product code in this event is listed together on the record that covers the whole recall, which is the page a search engine is pointed to for all 2 of them.
• The recall ran for 5 weeks, from 21 September 2018 to termination on 24 October 2018. 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 17 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 6 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a spice or seasoning run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Spices are a low-moisture, globally sourced, minimally processed ingredient that is added after any kill step, which is the combination that makes Salmonella in a spice lot capable of contaminating every product it was blended into.

Named in the distribution pattern: Indiana, Washington, Alaska, California, Pennsylvania, Hawaii, New York, Missouri, Texas, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Delaware, North Carolina, Michigan, Florida, South Carolina, Massachusetts. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

Filed under spices and seasonings. A product can sit in more than one.

Other spices and seasonings recalls

These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. Unlike the firm’s own records below, they come from different companies, which is what makes them a pattern rather than a history.

Other records from Victoria Gourmet, Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.

All 5 records for Victoria Gourmet, Inc.

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