Port City Soups Alkaline Vegetable Soup 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 Alkaline Vegetable Soup 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-0877-2022
- Quantity
- 54 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. All 5 of them are listed on this page.
- 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.
- Recalls of a prepared meal or sandwich run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Prepared meals concentrate every other category's hazards into one package: they are assembled from many components, handled after any cook step, sold ready to eat, and carry an ingredient list long enough to lose an allergen in.
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.
Filed under prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 5 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 4 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-23 | Port City Soups Tex-Mex Chili 32oz glass mason jar sold by individual unit | Tony's Tejas Salsa | Production Process not approved for acidified foods. | Class II |
| 2022-03-23 | Port City Soups Creole Gumbo 32oz glass mason jar sold by individual unit | Tony's Tejas Salsa | Production Process not approved for acidified foods. | Class II |
| 2022-03-23 | Port City Soups Baton Rouge Beans 32oz glass mason jar sold by individual unit | Tony's Tejas Salsa | Production Process not approved for acidified foods. | Class II |
| 2022-03-23 | Port City Soups Thai Green Curry 32oz glass mason jar sold by individual unit | Tony's Tejas Salsa | Production Process not approved for acidified foods. | Class II |
Other prepared meals and sandwiches 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 Tony's Tejas Salsa
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-23 | Port City Soups Tex-Mex Chili 32oz glass mason jar sold by individual unit | Tony's Tejas Salsa | Production Process not approved for acidified foods. | Class II |
| 2022-03-23 | Port City Soups Creole Gumbo 32oz glass mason jar sold by individual unit | Tony's Tejas Salsa | Production Process not approved for acidified foods. | Class II |
| 2022-03-23 | Port City Soups Baton Rouge Beans 32oz glass mason jar sold by individual unit | Tony's Tejas Salsa | Production Process not approved for acidified foods. | Class II |
| 2022-03-23 | Port City Soups Thai Green Curry 32oz glass mason jar sold by individual unit | Tony's Tejas Salsa | Production Process not approved for acidified foods. | Class II |
All 5 records for Tony's Tejas Salsa
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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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