AJI MORI***CHILLIMAMI SAUCE***UMAMI BOMB***NET WT. 250ml. Packaged in a LDPE bottle.
AJI MORI SAUCE CORP recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 10 April 2024 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Potential contamination with Clostridium botulinum
The record
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- Product
- AJI MORI***CHILLIMAMI SAUCE***UMAMI BOMB***NET WT. 250ml. Packaged in a LDPE bottle. Refrigerate after opening.
- Reason for recall
- Potential contamination with Clostridium botulinum
- Recalling firm
- AJI MORI SAUCE CORP
- Firm location
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1115-2024
- Quantity
- 78 bottles
- Distribution
- Products were distributed direct to consumers in CA, TX, IL, FL, NV, NY, NJ, VA, MA. The firm distributed products to consumers at their retail location and to customers who purchased product from their website, www.ajimorisauce.com.
- Initiated
- 29 February 2024
- Reported by FDA
- 10 April 2024
- Terminated
- 12 September 2024
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Batch Numbers: 231001; 240101; 231002; 240102; 231003; 240103; 231004; 240104; 231101; 240105; 231102; 240106; 231103; 240201; 231104; 240202; 231201; 240203; 231202; 240204; 231203; 231204. Product code: 86001056573, Expiration Date: Oct 1, 2024
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 6 months, from 29 February 2024 to termination on 12 September 2024. 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 7 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 6 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a sauce, dip or condiment run a median of 6 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Sauces and dips sit at the intersection of the acidified foods rule and the allergen rule: an equilibrium pH above 4.6 turns a shelf-stable product into a botulism risk, and the ingredient list is long enough that an allergen is easy to lose.
Named in the distribution pattern: Texas, Illinois, Florida, Nevada, New York, New Jersey, Virginia. 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
Clostridium botulinum
Clostridium botulinum recalls are recalls of the process, not of a test result: the organism produces its toxin without oxygen, so a low-acid food in a sealed container that missed its scheduled process is recalled whether or not toxin was ever found.
A preventive controls plan covers a botulism risk 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 113
- Thermally processed low-acid foods in hermetically sealed containers: the scheduled process, its establishment by a competent authority, and the records proving every container received it.
- 21 CFR 108.35
- Emergency permit control: the registration and process filing a low-acid canned food processor must hold before it may operate.
Filed under sauces, dips and condiments and spices and seasonings. A product can sit in more than one.
Other sauces, dips and condiments 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.
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21 CFR 113 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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