Lam Sheng Kee Chinese Red Dates, (Net Weight 400 Grams), Lam Sheng Kee (HK)…
S & M International Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 22 May 2013 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. The recall was initiated after it was discovered through NYDAM Sampling which revealed the product Lam Sheng Kee Red Dates contain unallowed dye basic violet 3.
The record
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Product
Lam Sheng Kee Chinese Red Dates, (Net Weight 400 Grams), Lam Sheng Kee (HK) International Limited, RM3 8/F Yuexiu BLDG., 160-174, Lockhart Road, Wan Chai, HK. Distributed By: S&M Int'l Inc. 100 Pulaski Street, Bayonne, NJ 07002. Item #803810; Product of China.
Reason for recall
The recall was initiated after it was discovered through NYDAM Sampling which revealed the product Lam Sheng Kee Red Dates contain unallowed dye basic violet 3.
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
Class III means the FDA judged that the product was unlikely to cause harm but violated FDA labelling or manufacturing regulation. 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 5 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 5 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 5. All 5 of them are listed on this page.
The recall ran for 3.9 years, from 15 March 2013 to termination on 8 February 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 FDA published the enforcement report 2 months 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.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 5 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 4 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.
The recall was initiated after it was discovered through NYDAM Sampling which revealed the product Dried Mango contains undeclared sulfites/preservatives.
The recall was initiated after it was discovered through NYDAM Sampling which revealed the product Tasty Snacks Sour Plum contains undeclared sulfites/preservatives, contains unallowed dye:16185-Amaranth (E123)-Acid Red 27 and contains undeclared FD & C Yellow #6
The recall was initiated after it was discovered through NYDAM Sampling which revealed the product Lam Sheng Kee Mini Sausage contains undeclared FD&C Red #40 and undeclared minced fish (unknown fish species)
The recall was initiated after it was discovered through NYDAM Sampling which revealed the product Grove Grow Notes Hawthorne contains unallowed dye 16255,Ponceau 4R (E124)- Acid Red 18 and FD& C Yellow #5
Class II
Other records from S & M International Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 8 other records name this firm.
The recall was initiated after it was discovered through NYDAM Sampling which revealed the product Dried Mango contains undeclared sulfites/preservatives.
The recall was initiated after it was discovered through NYDAM Sampling which revealed the product Tasty Snacks Sour Plum contains undeclared sulfites/preservatives, contains unallowed dye:16185-Amaranth (E123)-Acid Red 27 and contains undeclared FD & C Yellow #6
The recall was initiated after it was discovered through NYDAM Sampling which revealed the product Lam Sheng Kee Mini Sausage contains undeclared FD&C Red #40 and undeclared minced fish (unknown fish species)
The recall was initiated after it was discovered through NYDAM Sampling which revealed the product Grove Grow Notes Hawthorne contains unallowed dye 16255,Ponceau 4R (E124)- Acid Red 18 and FD& C Yellow #5
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