Class ITerminated · reported 2016-12-28

MTR MASALA Sambar Powder, Net Quantity: 200g

Shri Shiva Foods Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 28 December 2016 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. The firm distributed a product prior to FDA release for an article which appears to contain Salmonella and was Subject to Import Alert #99-19

The record

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Product: MTR MASALA Sambar Powder, Net Quantity: 200g
Reason for recall: The firm distributed a product prior to FDA release for an article which appears to contain Salmonella and was Subject to Import Alert #99-19
Recalling firm: Shri Shiva Foods Inc
Firm location: Ozone Park, New York, United States
Classification: Class I
Status: Terminated
Recall number: F-0941-2017
Quantity: 20 cartons/66 units/200g
Distribution: NY and OH thru one wholesale store each
Initiated: 7 November 2016
Reported by FDA: 28 December 2016
Terminated: 19 June 2018
Firm notified by: Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes: LOT NO: 15J27C MFD. 27.10.15

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

Class I means the FDA judged a reasonable probability that the product would cause serious health consequences or death. 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 19 months, from 7 November 2016 to termination on 19 June 2018. 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 1 state, and the FDA published the enforcement report 7 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

Salmonella

Salmonella is a bacterium that survives in low-moisture foods for months, which is why it appears in recalls of products that carry no water for it to grow in: nut butters, spices, flour and dry pet food.

A preventive controls plan covers Salmonella 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 117.135(c)(1): Process controls: the controls that apply a treatment, such as a validated kill step, at the point where it reduces the hazard to a safe level.
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 117.165(a)(2): Product testing: testing as a verification activity, appropriate to the facility, the food and the nature of the preventive control.

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