Carolina Ingredients Avocado Lime Seasoning Mfr. By: Carolina Ingredients, LLC Rock…

Carolina Ingredients recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 24 November 2021 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. The firm was notified by their customer of possible lead in their products. The firm sent samples of the product to a lab

The record

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Product

Carolina Ingredients Avocado Lime Seasoning Mfr. By: Carolina Ingredients, LLC Rock Hill, SC 29730

Reason for recall

The firm was notified by their customer of possible lead in their products. The firm sent samples of the product to a lab

Recalling firm

Carolina Ingredients

Firm location

Rock Hill, South Carolina, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Completed

Recall number

F-0161-2022

Quantity

N/A

Distribution

All product was shipped to one customer in GA.

Initiated

7 October 2021

Reported by FDA

24 November 2021

Firm notified by

Letter

Product codes

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Reading this record

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

• Class II means the FDA judged a remote probability of serious harm, or a probability of temporary or medically reversible harm. 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 6 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 6 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 6. 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 6 of them.
• This recall has no termination date on the record, so as published it had not been terminated under 21 CFR 7.55.
• The FDA published the enforcement report 7 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Fresh produce is the category where contamination arrives before the facility does: irrigation water, soil amendments and field workers are the routes, and nothing downstream of the farm is a kill step for a product eaten raw.

What this recall was for

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

Other fresh produce recalls for the same reason

These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food, recalled for a hazard this record also names. 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 Carolina Ingredients

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 5 other records name this firm.

All 6 records for Carolina Ingredients

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