SAUER'S GROUND CUMIN,5lbs . CHEF'S MAGIC GROUND CUMIN, 5 lbs. CODE GROUND CUMIN, 5 lbs.

C.F. Sauer Company recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 23 November 2016 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. The firm was notified that a specific lot of Ground Cumin Seed (lot # 2686E) they purchased had tested and found to be positive for peanut protein.

The record

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Product

SAUER'S GROUND CUMIN,5lbs . CHEF'S MAGIC GROUND CUMIN, 5 lbs. CODE GROUND CUMIN, 5 lbs. JAKE'S GROUND CUMIN,5 lbs. PREMIUM RECIPE GROUND CUMIN,5 lbs RESTAURANT PRIDE GROUND CUMIN,5 lbs.

Reason for recall

The firm was notified that a specific lot of Ground Cumin Seed (lot # 2686E) they purchased had tested and found to be positive for peanut protein.

Recalling firm

C.F. Sauer Company

Firm location

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0451-2017

Quantity

80 Cases

Distribution

The product was distributed thru out the United States .

Initiated

24 December 2014

Reported by FDA

23 November 2016

Terminated

15 November 2016

Firm notified by

Telephone

Product codes

PRODUCT ID 01107 LOT # 14273R

Reading this record

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

• Class I means the FDA judged a reasonable probability that the product would cause serious health consequences or death. 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 10 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 10 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 10. 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 10 of them.
• The recall ran for 23 months, from 24 December 2014 to termination on 15 November 2016. 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 23 months after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a spice or seasoning run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer 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.

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 C.F. Sauer Company

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 9 other records name this firm.

All 10 records for C.F. Sauer Company

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