PIAZZA PRODUCE, INC. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 18 January 2017 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product labeling does not contain a listing of ingredients. Undeclared Soybean oil.
The record
Every field below is published by the FDA in the openFDA food enforcement database. Check the FDA notice before acting on any recall: this page is a reading of the public record, not a substitute for it.
Product
Lemon Pepper, 5 lb plastic gallon, product number 65085; Lemon Pepper, 1.25 lb plastic jar, product number 65066; Lemon Pepper, 12 lb plastic pail, product number 65104
Reason for recall
Product labeling does not contain a listing of ingredients. Undeclared Soybean oil.
Food service establishments in IL, IN, KY, MI, OH No international
Initiated
7 August 2015
Reported by FDA
18 January 2017
Terminated
21 March 2017
Firm notified by
Letter
Product codes
All lots manufactured / distributed since 2011
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 24 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 24 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 24. 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 24 of them.
The recall ran for 19 months, from 7 August 2015 to termination on 21 March 2017. 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 3 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 17 months after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of a spice or seasoning run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Spices are a low-moisture, globally sourced, minimally processed ingredient that is added after any kill step, which is the combination that makes Salmonella in a spice lot capable of contaminating every product it was blended into.
Named in the distribution pattern: Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
An undeclared allergen recall means a food contained one of the major allergens and the label did not say so, either because the wrong label was applied or because an ingredient carried an allergen nobody traced.
A preventive controls plan covers an undeclared allergen 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)(2)
Food allergen controls: the written preventive controls that keep an allergen out of a food it does not belong in, and that get the allergens present onto the label.
21 CFR 101.4
Ingredient declaration: every ingredient listed by its common name, in descending order of predominance, on the label of a packaged food.
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 spices and seasonings 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.
21 CFR 117.135(c)(2) 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.
Recall records come from the openFDA food enforcement API, published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain. Krolda adds the hazard classification and the clause mapping; neither is an FDA determination. Always check the FDA notice before acting on a recall.
