Class IITerminated · reported 2022-03-23

Port City Soups Tex-Mex Chili 32oz glass mason jar sold by individual unit

Tony's Tejas Salsa recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 23 March 2022 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Production Process not approved for acidified foods.

The record

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Product
Port City Soups Tex-Mex Chili 32oz glass mason jar sold by individual unit
Reason for recall
Production Process not approved for acidified foods.
Recalling firm
Tony's Tejas Salsa
Firm location
Mobile, Alabama, United States
Classification
Class II
Status
Terminated
Recall number
F-0876-2022
Quantity
81 units
Distribution
Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee
Initiated
28 February 2022
Reported by FDA
23 March 2022
Terminated
14 June 2022
Firm notified by
Telephone
Product codes
Batch No: 221301, 222301, 220302, 220402, 222504, 2211901, 221602, 222001, 221102, 212912, 220701, 222401 Best By Dates: 12/29/22, 01/07/23, 01/13/23, 01/19/23, 01/20/23, 01/22/23, 01/23/23, 01/24/23, 01/25/23, 01/26/23, 02/03/23, 02/04/23, 02/16/23

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 5 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 5 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 5. 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 5 of them.
  • The recall ran for 3 months, from 28 February 2022 to termination on 14 June 2022. 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 3 weeks after the firm began the recall.
  • The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.

What this recall was for

Unapproved ingredients

An unapproved ingredient recall means a product contained a substance not permitted in food, most often an undisclosed pharmaceutical active found in a dietary supplement.

A preventive controls plan covers an unapproved ingredient 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 111
Dietary supplement CGMP: the identity, purity, strength and composition specifications a supplement manufacturer sets and verifies for every component and finished batch.
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.

Other records from Tony's Tejas Salsa

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

ReportedProductFirmReasonClass
2022-03-23Port City Soups Alkaline Vegetable Soup 32oz glass mason jar sold by individual unitTony's Tejas SalsaProduction Process not approved for acidified foods.Class II
2022-03-23Port City Soups Creole Gumbo 32oz glass mason jar sold by individual unitTony's Tejas SalsaProduction Process not approved for acidified foods.Class II
2022-03-23Port City Soups Baton Rouge Beans 32oz glass mason jar sold by individual unitTony's Tejas SalsaProduction Process not approved for acidified foods.Class II
2022-03-23Port City Soups Thai Green Curry 32oz glass mason jar sold by individual unitTony's Tejas SalsaProduction Process not approved for acidified foods.Class II

All 5 records for Tony's Tejas Salsa

All 2022 recalls · All FDA food recall data

21 CFR 111 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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