RJ's DIAVOLO SAUCE WITH PEPPERS 25 oz INGREDIENTS: ground unpeeled vine-ripened…

Garden Harvest recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 20 January 2016 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. The firm was manufacturing acidified foods without a license.

The record

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Product

RJ's DIAVOLO SAUCE WITH PEPPERS 25 oz INGREDIENTS: ground unpeeled vine-ripened tomatoes, tomato puree, tomato past, Hungarian hot wax peppers, Cubanelle peppers, fresh sweet onions, fresh garlic,***Manufactured for: RJ's Pepper Pantry Warren, OH 44484 Phone 330-765-2863 Mild UPC 8 53827 00403 0, Medium Hot UPC 8 5327 00404 7, Hot UPC 8 53827 00405 4

UPC

853827004030

Reason for recall

The firm was manufacturing acidified foods without a license.

Recalling firm

Garden Harvest

Firm location

Mc Arthur, Ohio, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0496-2016

Quantity

12 cases

Distribution

Product was shipped to the following states: OH, FL, WV

Initiated

12 August 2015

Reported by FDA

20 January 2016

Terminated

26 February 2019

Firm notified by

E-Mail

Product codes

All Lots.

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 32 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 32 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 32. All 32 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 3.5 years, from 12 August 2015 to termination on 26 February 2019. 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 2 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 months after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. 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.

Named in the distribution pattern: Florida, West Virginia. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

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

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 32 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 31 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.

Other fresh produce 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 Garden Harvest

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 31 other records name this firm.

All 32 records for Garden Harvest

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