Class ITerminated · reported 2013-03-06

Egyptian Parsley Flakes, Weight: 10kg Net.

Specialty Commodities, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 6 March 2013 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Specialty Commodities was notified by a customer that they had found Parsley Flakes to be positive for Salmonella.

The record

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Product: Egyptian Parsley Flakes, Weight: 10kg Net.
Reason for recall: Specialty Commodities was notified by a customer that they had found Parsley Flakes to be positive for Salmonella.
Recalling firm: Specialty Commodities, Inc.
Firm location: Fargo, North Dakota, United States
Classification: Class I
Status: Terminated
Recall number: F-1028-2013
Quantity: 780 containers
Distribution: CA, IL, MO, ND, NJ, OK, PA, WI
Initiated: 8 February 2013
Reported by FDA: 6 March 2013
Terminated: 11 April 2016
Firm notified by: Telephone
Product codes: Manufacturer's code: Batch No. 127, Lot#.: 214 Specialty Commodities' Lot numbers: SD28173, RE49421, SCS321167.

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 3.2 years, from 8 February 2013 to termination on 11 April 2016. 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 8 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Fresh produce is the category where contamination arrives before the facility does: irrigation water, soil amendments and field workers are the routes, and nothing downstream of the farm is a kill step for a product eaten raw.

Named in the distribution pattern: California, Illinois, Missouri, North Dakota, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, 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

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.

Filed under fresh produce. A product can sit in more than one.

Other fresh produce 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.

Reported	Product	Firm	Reason	Class
2026-08-26	Whole Foods Mild Guacamole Dip No Tomatoes, Keep Refrigerated. Packed in various sized clear plastic containers. Product is weighed and a finished product label is applied. Products contain the following PLU Cods located under label bar code: 24293900000, 25745000000, 24367500000, 25658600000, Packed for Whole Foods Market, located at either 1745 W. Market Street, Akron, OH 44313 or 4301 W. William Cannon, Austin, TX 78749.	WFM Purchasing, LP	Salsa and Guacamole products were made with jalapenos that may be contaminated with Salmonella.	Class I
2026-08-26	Whole Foods Spicy Guacamole Dip No Tomatoes, Keep Refrigerated. Packed in various sized clear plastic containers. Product is weighed and a finished product label is applied. Products contain the following PLU Cods located under label bar code: 25745200000, 284324000000, 23501500000, 25744900000. Packed for Whole Foods Market, located at either 1745 W. Market Street, Akron, OH 44313 or 4301 W. William Cannon, Austin, TX 78749.	WFM Purchasing, LP	Salsa and Guacamole products were made with jalapenos that may be contaminated with Salmonella.	Class I
2026-08-26	Whole Foods Salsa, Heirloom Tomato. Keep Refrigerated. Packed in various sized clear plastic containers. Product is weighed and a finished product label is applied. Products contain the following PLU Cods located under label bar code: 22860200000, 24091700000, 24118800000, 25024800000, 29648100000, 29648700000, 46000049560. Packed for Whole Foods Market, located at either 1745 W. Market Street, Akron, OH 44313 or 4301 W. William Cannon, Austin, TX 78749.	WFM Purchasing, LP	Salsa and Guacamole products were made with jalapenos that may be contaminated with Salmonella.	Class I
2026-08-26	Whole Foods Mango Pineapple Salsa sold as a condiment in Caribbean Mango Pineapple Turkey Burger. Keep Refrigerated. Packed in various sized clear plastic containers. Product is weighed and a finished product label is applied. Products contain the following PLU Cods located under label bar code: 25867600000, 21195900000, 46000040275, 27578600000. Packed for Whole Foods Market, 4301 W. William Cannon, Austin, TX 78749.	WFM Purchasing, LP	Salsa and Guacamole products were made with jalapenos that may be contaminated with Salmonella.	Class I
2026-07-01	2.0 oz Dirty Sour Cream and Onion Potato Chips, Plastic Bag.	Utz Quality Foods, LLC	Potential presence of Salmonella.	Class I
2026-07-01	Spring & Mulberry Mango Chili Date-Sweetened Chocolate, Net Wt. 2.1 oz. (60g), individually packaged in an orange box, UPC 850055470033, Dist. By Spring & Mulberry Raleigh, NC 27606. Wholesale product packed 48 bars (caddied)/56 bars (uncaddied) per case. Retail product sold individually or as a 3-pk, 6-pk, or 12-pk (Amazon only).	Spring & Mulberry Inc.	Potential Salmonella contamination	Class I
2026-07-01	Spring & Mulberry Mulberry Fennel Date-Sweetened Chocolate, Net Wt. 2.1 oz. (60g), individually packaged in a burgundy box, UPC 850055470149, Dist. By Spring & Mulberry Raleigh, NC 27606. Wholesale product packed 48 bars (caddied)/56 bars (uncaddied) per case. Retail product sold individually or as a 3-pk, 6-pk, or 12-pk (Amazon only).	Spring & Mulberry Inc.	Potential Salmonella contamination.	Class I
2026-07-01	2.0 oz Dirty Maui Onion Chip, Plastic Bag.	Utz Quality Foods, LLC	Potential presence of Salmonella.	Class I

Other records from Specialty Commodities, Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 5 other records name this firm.

Reported	Product	Firm	Reason	Class
2016-04-27	Almonds, dry roasted, not salted, packaged in 25 lb. cardboard cartons	Specialty Commodities, Inc.	Cashews were mixed with almonds but allergen was not declared on outside packaging.	Class II
2016-03-16	Heartland Flax Meal, Net Wt. 50 lbs.	Specialty Commodities, Inc.	Specialty Commodities, Inc. is recalling a specific lot of Flax Meal that may be contaminated with Salmonella typhimurium.	Class I
2014-09-24	Thien Minh Cashew Kernels, Net Wt. 50 lb. Product of Vietnam	Specialty Commodities, Inc.	The Cashew Pieces have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.	Class I
2012-10-24	Macadamia Nuts Style 2, RAW, SHELLED. DESCRIPTION OF CARTON FROM GUATEMALA: LOT 2 70 JUNE 25/12 423, 43 1 NORMAL/BIG .	Specialty Commodities, Inc.	Specialty Commodities Inc., is recalling product due to potential contamination with Salmonella.	Class I
2012-08-29	Organic Pinenut, 25 kg, Product of China	Specialty Commodities, Inc.	A customer of Specialty Commodities reported that they found peanuts in a container of pine nuts.	Class I

All 6 records for Specialty Commodities, Inc.

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