Ortega Enchilada Sauce 8 oz., UPC 41501-00898

B&G Foods North America, Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 24 December 2014 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Specific Ortega Brand Taco Seasoning, Taco Sauce, Taco Dinner Kits, and Enchilada Sauce, and Las Palmas brand Taco Seasoning and Taco Sauce products are being recalled because one or more of the spice ingredients may contain peanuts and almonds.

The record

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Product

Ortega Enchilada Sauce 8 oz., UPC 41501-00898

UPC

4150100898

Reason for recall

Specific Ortega Brand Taco Seasoning, Taco Sauce, Taco Dinner Kits, and Enchilada Sauce, and Las Palmas brand Taco Seasoning and Taco Sauce products are being recalled because one or more of the spice ingredients may contain peanuts and almonds.

Recalling firm

B&G Foods North America, Inc

Firm location

Parsippany, New Jersey, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0737-2015

Quantity

7,201,809 cases total

Distribution

Nationwide and Worldwide to include: Bermuda, Canada, Dominican Republic, Dubai, Guam, Haiti, Honduras, Israel, New Zealand, Panama, Philippines, Singapore, Trinidad, United Kingdom.

Initiated

14 November 2014

Reported by FDA

24 December 2014

Terminated

14 April 2015

Firm notified by

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Product codes

Best By Date Range: Feb 18, 2017 - Nov 10, 2017

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 7 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 7 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 7. 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 7 of them.
• The recall ran for 5 months, from 14 November 2014 to termination on 14 April 2015. 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 6 weeks 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

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 B&G Foods North America, Inc

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 13 other records name this firm.

All 14 records for B&G Foods North America, Inc

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