Sweet & Spicy BBQ sauce, Fresh Chile BBQ sweet & Spicy Medium. 19 fluid ounce glass jar…

The Fresh Chile Company recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 11 October 2023 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Label lacked Fish (anchovies) allergen declaration.

The record

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Product

Sweet & Spicy BBQ sauce, Fresh Chile BBQ sweet & Spicy Medium. 19 fluid ounce glass jar 19 fl oz. (510g) , with a metal screw top lid.

Reason for recall

Label lacked Fish (anchovies) allergen declaration.

Recalling firm

The Fresh Chile Company

Firm location

Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1700-2023

Quantity

6,475 individual units distributed to wholesale customers and individuals via firms website and gift shop.

Distribution

6,453 6,475 19 fl oz. (510g) jars distributed to wholesale customers and individuals. From June 21 2022 last date of distribution April 12 2023. With 81 sold through the giftshop from April 13th to August 25 2023. Wholesale customers 28, internet customers to be determined. 18 6,453 6,475 19 fl oz. (510g) jars remain in the firms possession, under quarantine.

Initiated

25 August 2023

Reported by FDA

11 October 2023

Terminated

22 August 2025

Firm notified by

E-Mail

Product codes

Lot #'s 062122-21 062122-31 062222-21 062222-31 062322-21 062322-31 062722-11 062722-21 062722-31 Lot code is the date of cook then dash, the kettle # and cook in that kettle on that day, as in Kettle 2 first cook (21)

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 2 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 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. All 2 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 24 months, from 25 August 2023 to termination on 22 August 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 FDA published the enforcement report 7 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a sauce, dip or condiment run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual 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.

Filed under sauces, dips and condiments. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

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Other sauces, dips and condiments recalls

These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. Unlike the firm’s own records below, they come from different companies, which is what makes them a pattern rather than a history.

Other records from The Fresh Chile Company

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