Basil Pesto 50 pound bag, Item 859081100

Griffith Labs U.S.A. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 8 August 2018 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Potential presence of Salmonella due to use of recalled whey ingredient

The record

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Product

Basil Pesto 50 pound bag, Item 859081100

Reason for recall

Potential presence of Salmonella due to use of recalled whey ingredient

Recalling firm

Griffith Labs U.S.A.

Firm location

Alsip, Illinois, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1879-2018

Quantity

10 bags, 500 lbs

Distribution

Nationwide and Canada

Initiated

17 July 2018

Reported by FDA

8 August 2018

Terminated

20 May 2020

Firm notified by

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Product codes

Batch or lot numbers: 670778

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 43 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 43 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 43. 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 43 of them.
• The recall ran for 22 months, from 17 July 2018 to termination on 20 May 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 FDA published the enforcement report 3 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.

What this recall was for

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

Other sauces, dips and condiments 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.

Other records from Griffith Labs U.S.A.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 42 other records name this firm.

All 43 records for Griffith Labs U.S.A.

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