Dried Bean Curd Satay Flavor, 24x150g, Item No. 8533.

Gemini Food Corporation Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 11 February 2015 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Gemini Foods is recalling bean curd products because they may be contaminated with dimethyl yellow.

The record

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Product

Dried Bean Curd Satay Flavor, 24x150g, Item No. 8533.

Reason for recall

Gemini Foods is recalling bean curd products because they may be contaminated with dimethyl yellow.

Recalling firm

Gemini Food Corporation Inc

Firm location

City of Industry, California, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0941-2015

Quantity

5928 units

Distribution

Nationwide in US: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NE, NM, OH, OR, TN, TX, UT, and WI.

Initiated

19 December 2014

Reported by FDA

11 February 2015

Terminated

5 November 2015

Firm notified by

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Product codes

Batch No. GFC41540J, GFC41694K, GFC41827L, GFC42145M

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 11 months, from 19 December 2014 to termination on 5 November 2015. 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 25 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 8 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.

Named in the distribution pattern: Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

Every product in this recall

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Other records from Gemini Food Corporation Inc

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 6 other records name this firm.

All 7 records for Gemini Food Corporation Inc

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