PS# 86293 Mississippi Mash BBQ Sauce 30 Packs/ 20.2 oz. Net WT 37.88 each Carton and PS#…

Pepper Source, Ltd. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 26 February 2020 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. May contain pieces of food grade packing material

The record

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Product

PS# 86293 Mississippi Mash BBQ Sauce 30 Packs/ 20.2 oz. Net WT 37.88 each Carton and PS# 86295 Mississippi Mash BBQ Sauce (20.2 oz. packs) 30 Packs/Case

Reason for recall

May contain pieces of food grade packing material

Recalling firm

Pepper Source, Ltd.

Firm location

Rogers, Arkansas, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0735-2020

Quantity

3411 cases

Distribution

AR, VA, AL

Initiated

13 February 2020

Reported by FDA

26 February 2020

Terminated

17 April 2020

Firm notified by

E-Mail

Product codes

Production Date 1/30/2020 - Lot Code RE403003R; Production Date 1/29/2020 - Lot Code RE402901R; Production Date(s): 02/04/2020 Lot number(s): DA303501R; Production Date(s): 02/05/2020 Lot number(s): DA303601R

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 4 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 4 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 4. All 4 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 2 months, from 13 February 2020 to termination on 17 April 2020. 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 3 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 13 days after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a sauce, dip or condiment run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter than usual 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.

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

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

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 4 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 3 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 sauces, dips and condiments 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 Pepper Source, Ltd.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.

All 4 records for Pepper Source, Ltd.

All 2020 recalls · All FDA food recall data