Natural Pak brand Coffee Chili Rub is packaged in 22oz (624g), white, cylindrical…
Victoria Gourmet, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 26 April 2023 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Package contains "Bacon Glaze" resulting in: demerara sugar, honey granules, maple sugar, cinnamon, all spice, clove, parsley being undeclared on the label
The record
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- Product
- Natural Pak brand Coffee Chili Rub is packaged in 22oz (624g), white, cylindrical, plastic containers; Ingredients: Sea salt, ancho chile, brown sugar, espresso beans, hot smoked paprika, mustard, black pepper, coriander, ginger, oregano, chipotle chile, paprika. Contains: mustard
- Reason for recall
- Package contains "Bacon Glaze" resulting in: demerara sugar, honey granules, maple sugar, cinnamon, all spice, clove, parsley being undeclared on the label
- Recalling firm
- Victoria Gourmet, Inc.
- Firm location
- Woburn, Massachusetts, United States
- Classification
- Class III
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0747-2023
- Quantity
- 36 units
- Distribution
- OH
- Initiated
- 22 March 2023
- Reported by FDA
- 26 April 2023
- Terminated
- 27 July 2023
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- BEST IF USED BY 12/2025 and Lot #L2332402; 4C42/4L33 UPC: 666227804069
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class III means the FDA judged that the product was unlikely to cause harm but violated FDA labelling or manufacturing regulation. 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 2 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 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. 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 2 of them.
- The recall ran for 4 months, from 22 March 2023 to termination on 27 July 2023. 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 1 state, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks 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.
What this recall was for
Undeclared allergens
An undeclared allergen recall means a food contained one of the major allergens and the label did not say so, either because the wrong label was applied or because an ingredient carried an allergen nobody traced.
A preventive controls plan covers an undeclared allergen under the clauses below. This is where the control belongs, not a finding against any firm named on this page: a recall record states a reason, and most of these recalls were initiated by the firm itself.
- 21 CFR 117.135(c)(2)
- Food allergen controls: the written preventive controls that keep an allergen out of a food it does not belong in, and that get the allergens present onto the label.
- 21 CFR 101.4
- Ingredient declaration: every ingredient listed by its common name, in descending order of predominance, on the label of a packaged food.
- 21 CFR 117 subpart G
- Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
Filed under sauces, dips and condiments, spices and seasonings and beverages and juice. 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 Victoria Gourmet, Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
All 5 records for Victoria Gourmet, Inc.
All 2023 recalls · All FDA food recall data
21 CFR 117.135(c)(2) is the clause behind this recall, and it is one somebody has to produce evidence for at their next audit. Krolda maps supplier documents to the clause they satisfy in FSSC 22000, IFS Food and 21 CFR 117, and routes the corrective action when the evidence is missing.
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