MBF-202 Carrageenan
Ingredients Solutions Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 16 September 2020 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. On August 28, 2020, the firm's customer discovered colored fibers up to 1/4 " in length after sifting a lot of finished carrageenan intended for use as an ingredient in a finished food product. The fibers were identified by the recalling firm as 'tie tie' a fibrous rope used for seaweed production that was present in the seaweed ingredient used to manufacture carrageenan. One August 28, 2020 the firm recalled the finished carrageenan.
The record
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- Product
- MBF-202 Carrageenan
- Reason for recall
- On August 28, 2020, the firm's customer discovered colored fibers up to 1/4 " in length after sifting a lot of finished carrageenan intended for use as an ingredient in a finished food product. The fibers were identified by the recalling firm as 'tie tie' a fibrous rope used for seaweed production that was present in the seaweed ingredient used to manufacture carrageenan. One August 28, 2020 the firm recalled the finished carrageenan.
- Recalling firm
- Ingredients Solutions Inc.
- Firm location
- Waldo, Maine, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1435-2020
- Quantity
- 18,000 lbs.
- Distribution
- IA, KS, WI, KY
- Initiated
- 27 August 2020
- Reported by FDA
- 16 September 2020
- Terminated
- 28 April 2021
- Firm notified by
- Telephone
- Product codes
- 191001-A 191001-B 191002-A Use by dates: 10/01/21 & 10/02/21 191002-B 191003-A
Reading this record
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- 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 8 months, from 27 August 2020 to termination on 28 April 2021. 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 4 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: Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin, Kentucky. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
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