Class IITerminated · reported 2019-03-20

JOY GOL-GAPPA (PANI PURI) MASALA CONCENTRATE, NET WT 8 OZ (228g), UPC: 6 80617 60414 5

JOY GOURMET FOODS LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 20 March 2019 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product contains undeclared sulfites.

The record

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Product
JOY GOL-GAPPA (PANI PURI) MASALA CONCENTRATE, NET WT 8 OZ (228g), UPC: 6 80617 60414 5
UPC
680617604145
Reason for recall
Product contains undeclared sulfites.
Recalling firm
JOY GOURMET FOODS LLC
Firm location
Maspeth, New York, United States
Classification
Class II
Status
Terminated
Recall number
F-1215-2019
Quantity
unknown
Distribution
CT, NY, NJ
Initiated
25 February 2019
Reported by FDA
20 March 2019
Terminated
10 July 2020
Firm notified by
Visit
Product codes
0712 7/12/2019

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 11 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 11 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 11. 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 11 of them.
  • The recall ran for 16 months, from 25 February 2019 to termination on 10 July 2020. 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 3 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: Connecticut, New York, New Jersey. 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

Undeclared allergens

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.

The allergens named in this record: sulfites.

Other records from JOY GOURMET FOODS LLC

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 28 other records name this firm.

ReportedProductFirmReasonClass
2026-07-01Joy Pineapple Lassi 16 oz.Joy Gourmet Foods LLC.Product not adequately pasteurizedClass II
2026-07-01Joy Saffron Cardamon Lassi 16 oz.Joy Gourmet Foods LLC.Product not adequately pasteurizedClass II
2026-07-01Joy Plain Chaash Lassi 16 oz., 64 oz.Joy Gourmet Foods LLC.Product not adequately pasteurizedClass II
2026-07-01Joy Rose Lassi 16 oz.Joy Gourmet Foods LLC.Product not adequately pasteurizedClass II
2026-07-01Joy Sweet Lassi 16 oz.Joy Gourmet Foods LLC.Product not adequately pasteurizedClass II
2026-07-01Joy Mango-Pina-Strawberry Lassi 16 oz.Joy Gourmet Foods LLC.Product not adequately pasteurizedClass II
2026-07-01Joy Mango-Pina-Orange Lassi 16 oz., 64 oz.Joy Gourmet Foods LLC.Product not adequately pasteurizedClass II
2026-07-01Joy Masala Chaash Lassi 16 oz., 64 oz.Joy Gourmet Foods LLC.Product not adequately pasteurizedClass II
2026-07-01Joy Mango Lassi 16 oz., 64 oz.Joy Gourmet Foods LLC.Product not adequately pasteurizedClass II
2026-07-01Joy Strawberry Lassi 16 oz.Joy Gourmet Foods LLC.Product not adequately pasteurizedClass II

All 29 records for Joy Gourmet Foods LLC.

All 2019 recalls · All FDA food recall data

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.

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