Ziyad cinnamon powder, retail 4.5oz plastic jar with shaker cap UPC 074265007432, 12…
ZB Importing LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 17 May 2023 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Elevated levels of lead
The record
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- Product
- Ziyad cinnamon powder, retail 4.5oz plastic jar with shaker cap UPC 074265007432, 12 retail jars per wholesale case
- UPC
- 074265007432
- Reason for recall
- Elevated levels of lead
- Recalling firm
- ZB Importing LLC
- Firm location
- Cicero, Illinois, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0830-2023
- Quantity
- 3,456 units
- Distribution
- AL, AR, AZ, CA, CT, DE, FL, IA, IL, IN, KS, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, ND, NE, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, PA, PR, SC, TN, TX, USVI, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI
- Initiated
- 25 April 2023
- Reported by FDA
- 17 May 2023
- Terminated
- 13 October 2023
- Firm notified by
- Letter
- Product codes
- LOT 21321G2 Best by 01/2024
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 6 months, from 25 April 2023 to termination on 13 October 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 35 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a spice or seasoning run a median of 6 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Spices are a low-moisture, globally sourced, minimally processed ingredient that is added after any kill step, which is the combination that makes Salmonella in a spice lot capable of contaminating every product it was blended into.
Named in the distribution pattern: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
What this recall was for
Chemical contamination
A chemical contamination recall covers a substance that is harmful in food and was never meant to be there: a heavy metal, a cleaning chemical, a pesticide residue, or a natural toxin such as aflatoxin or histamine.
A preventive controls plan covers chemical contamination 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 117.35(b)
- Substances used in cleaning and sanitizing: toxic materials stored, identified and used so they cannot contaminate food, food-contact surfaces or packaging.
- 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.
- 21 CFR 117.130(b)(1)(ii)
- Hazard analysis: identifying the known or reasonably foreseeable chemical hazards, including radiological hazards, pesticide and drug residues, natural toxins and food decomposition.
Filed under spices and seasonings. A product can sit in more than one.
Other spices and seasonings 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 ZB Importing LLC
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 7 other records name this firm.
All 8 records for ZB Importing LLC
All 2023 recalls · All FDA food recall data
21 CFR 117.35(b) 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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