Carolina Ingredients Sweet Chipotle 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 Sweet Chipotle 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-0165-2022
- 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.
- 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.
What this recall was for
Chemical contamination
A chemical contamination recall covers a substance that is harmful in food and was never meant to be there: a heavy metal, a cleaning chemical, a pesticide residue, or a natural toxin such as aflatoxin or histamine.
A preventive controls plan covers chemical contamination under the clauses below. This is where the control belongs, not a finding against any firm named on this page: a recall record states a reason, and most of these recalls were initiated by the firm itself.
- 21 CFR 117.35(b)
- Substances used in cleaning and sanitizing: toxic materials stored, identified and used so they cannot contaminate food, food-contact surfaces or packaging.
- 21 CFR 117 subpart G
- Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
- 21 CFR 117.130(b)(1)(ii)
- Hazard analysis: identifying the known or reasonably foreseeable chemical hazards, including radiological hazards, pesticide and drug residues, natural toxins and food decomposition.
Filed under spices and seasonings. A product can sit in more than one.
Other spices and seasonings 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.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-24 | Carolina Ingredients Smoked Peppered Bacon Seasoning Mfr. By: Carolina Ingredients, LLC Rock Hill, SC 29730 | Carolina Ingredients | The firm was notified by their customer of possible lead in their products. The firm sent samples of the product to a lab | Class II |
| 2021-11-24 | Carolina Ingredients Jalapeno Seasoning Mfr. By: Carolina Ingredients, LLC Rock Hill, SC 29730 | Carolina Ingredients | The firm was notified by their customer of possible lead in their products. The firm sent samples of the product to a lab | Class II |
| 2021-11-24 | Carolina Ingredients Mustard & Onion Seasoning Mfr. By: Carolina Ingredients, LLC Rock Hill, SC 29730 | Carolina Ingredients | The firm was notified by their customer of possible lead in their products. The firm sent samples of the product to a lab | Class II |
| 2021-11-24 | Carolina Ingredients Avocado Lime Seasoning Mfr. By: Carolina Ingredients, LLC Rock Hill, SC 29730 | Carolina Ingredients | The firm was notified by their customer of possible lead in their products. The firm sent samples of the product to a lab | Class II |
| 2021-11-24 | Carolina Ingredients Beef Gravy Mix Non-allergen N715025 Net Wt. 50 lbs. Mfr. By: Carolina Ingredients, LLC Rock Hill, SC 29730 | Carolina Ingredients | The firm was notified by their customer of possible lead in their products. The firm sent samples of the product to a lab for evaluation. Some samples were found with elevated lead levels | Class II |
All 6 records for Carolina Ingredients
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21 CFR 117.35(b) is the clause behind this recall, and it is one somebody has to produce evidence for at their next audit. Krolda maps supplier documents to the clause they satisfy in FSSC 22000, IFS Food and 21 CFR 117, and routes the corrective action when the evidence is missing.
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