1- Name: Carbon Steel Utility Kitchen Knife Model: CSK1700 Size: Total length: 10.25"…
Black Forge Knives recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 14 August 2024 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Products contain elevated levels of lead.
The record
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- Product
- 1- Name: Carbon Steel Utility Kitchen Knife Model: CSK1700 Size: Total length: 10.25" Type of packaging: Each knife packed in a single box 2- Name: Carbon Steel Utility Kitchen Cleaver Knife Model: CSK1701 Size: Total length: 10.5" Type of packaging: Each knife packed in a single box 3- Name: Carbon Steel Utility Kitchen Knife Model: 501141 Size: Total length: 9.5" Type of packaging: Each knife packed in a single box 4- Name: Burnt Bone & Carbon Steel Ulu Knife Model: 2432 Size: Total length: 4" Type of packaging: Each knife packed in a single box 5- Name: Rosewood Carbon Steel Ulu Knife Model: 501204 Size: Total length: 4" Type of packaging: Each knife packed in a single box 6- Name: Rosewood Carbon Steel Meat Cleaver Model: 501172 Size: Total length: 10.25" Type of packaging: Each knife packed in a single box Knives sold direct to consumers via Bespoke Post.
- Reason for recall
- Products contain elevated levels of lead.
- Recalling firm
- Black Forge Knives
- Firm location
- Nizamabad, Pakistan
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1641-2024
- Quantity
- 21,000 units
- Distribution
- GA and further distributed directly to consumers
- Initiated
- 18 April 2024
- Reported by FDA
- 14 August 2024
- Terminated
- 14 March 2025
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- Model Numbers: 1- CSK1700 2- CSK1701 3- 501141 4- 2432 5- 501204 6- 501172
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 11 months, from 18 April 2024 to termination on 14 March 2025. 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 1 state, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 months after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of meat or poultry run a median of 8 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Most meat and poultry is regulated by USDA FSIS rather than the FDA, so a product appearing in this FDA dataset is usually a closed-faced sandwich, a product with meat as a minor ingredient, or a food FSIS does not claim.
What this recall was for
Chemical contamination
A chemical contamination recall covers a substance that is harmful in food and was never meant to be there: a heavy metal, a cleaning chemical, a pesticide residue, or a natural toxin such as aflatoxin or histamine.
A preventive controls plan covers chemical contamination 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 117.35(b)
- Substances used in cleaning and sanitizing: toxic materials stored, identified and used so they cannot contaminate food, food-contact surfaces or packaging.
- 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.
- 21 CFR 117.130(b)(1)(ii)
- Hazard analysis: identifying the known or reasonably foreseeable chemical hazards, including radiological hazards, pesticide and drug residues, natural toxins and food decomposition.
Filed under meat and poultry. A product can sit in more than one.
Other meat and poultry 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 117.35(b) 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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