Verde Salsa is refrigerated product, packaged in Polypropylene container, net wt.
Frobright Salsary, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 28 May 2025 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Salsa products are recalled due to potential contamination with wood particles.
The record
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Product
Verde Salsa is refrigerated product, packaged in Polypropylene container, net wt. 12.5 oz, UPC 1 18738 03719. San Juan Salsa Co. Arlington, WA 98223, www.sanjuansalsa.com
UPC
11873803719
Reason for recall
Salsa products are recalled due to potential contamination with wood particles.
Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes
Best Before Dates for San Juan Salsa: Jan 21 2025 Jan 31 2025 Feb 9 2025 Feb 18 2025 Feb 25 2025 Mar 7 2025 Mar 15 2025 Mar 25, 2025 Mar 31, 2025 Apr 4 2025 Apr 14 2025
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 8 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 8 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 8. 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 8 of them.
The recall ran for 6 weeks, from 17 April 2025 to termination on 28 May 2025. 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 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 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: Idaho, Oregon, Washington. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
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.
Behind every recall is a clause 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.
Recall records come from the openFDA food enforcement API, published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain. Krolda adds the hazard classification and the clause mapping; neither is an FDA determination. Always check the FDA notice before acting on a recall.
