The Mustard Man Inc Simply Peppered Mustard 8oz plastic bottles, 6 bottles per case
The Mustard Man Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 22 December 2021 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Wrong Product in packaging - Simply Peppered Mustard bottles were filled with Simply Horsey Mustard
The record
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- Product
- The Mustard Man Inc Simply Peppered Mustard 8oz plastic bottles, 6 bottles per case
- Reason for recall
- Wrong Product in packaging - Simply Peppered Mustard bottles were filled with Simply Horsey Mustard
- Recalling firm
- The Mustard Man Inc
- Firm location
- Massillon, Ohio, United States
- Classification
- Class III
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0283-2022
- Quantity
- 1739 bottles
- Distribution
- Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
- Initiated
- 12 October 2021
- Reported by FDA
- 22 December 2021
- Terminated
- 8 March 2022
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Batch Number - BB101322 Product Numbers: SH0001-6, SP0001-6 Manufacturing Numbers: FGMM2635, FGMM2633 Best By: 10/13/22
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 5 months, from 12 October 2021 to termination on 8 March 2022. 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 FDA published the enforcement report 2 months after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a sauce, dip or condiment run a median of 6 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Sauces and dips sit at the intersection of the acidified foods rule and the allergen rule: an equilibrium pH above 4.6 turns a shelf-stable product into a botulism risk, and the ingredient list is long enough that an allergen is easy to lose.
Filed under sauces, dips and condiments. A product can sit in more than one.
Other sauces, dips and condiments recalls
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