Famous Thick Salsa packaged in 7 oz clear plastic containers, manufactured by Sartori…

Sartori Inspirations, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 28 November 2012 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Sartori is recalling various dips, salsas, and cheese products which may have been manufactured onion mixes which were recalled by another firm due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.

The record

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Product

Famous Thick Salsa packaged in 7 oz clear plastic containers, manufactured by Sartori Inspirations, LLC, Lafayette, CO 80026.

Reason for recall

Sartori is recalling various dips, salsas, and cheese products which may have been manufactured onion mixes which were recalled by another firm due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.

Recalling firm

Sartori Inspirations, LLC

Firm location

Lafayette, Colorado, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0720-2013

Quantity

1 case (12 units)

Distribution

Distributed to Whole Foods Grocery chain only with nationwide locations including Rocky Mountain, Northeast, North Atlantic, Mid Atlantic, Northwest, and Southwest.

Initiated

20 July 2012

Reported by FDA

28 November 2012

Terminated

22 January 2013

Firm notified by

Telephone

Product codes

Lot number FT21921.

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 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 6 months, from 20 July 2012 to termination on 22 January 2013. 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 4 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.

What this recall was for

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

Other sauces, dips and condiments 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 Sartori Inspirations, LLC

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 Sartori Inspirations, LLC

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