JCB FLAVORS, LLC, Product Code 4006500812 / 40650/406500812/771756/ 40650, Cumin Ground…

JCB Flavors, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 6 May 2015 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. JCB Flavors is conducting a recall on various Seasonings which used ground cumin as an ingredient received in Oct - Dec 2014. JCB Flavors was informed by their supplier of ground cumin, Schiff Food Products, that the product tested positive for trace amounts of peanut allergens.

The record

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Product

JCB FLAVORS, LLC, Product Code 4006500812 / 40650/406500812/771756/ 40650, Cumin Ground #400650/40650/44650, 12x 8oz jar, 12x 3.4 oz jar, 12 x 16 oz jar, 1 x 16 oz jar, ,4 x 5 lb jug, bulk ( 25 lb, 10 lb, 2 lb) , UPC: 66049248116, 66049248106, 66049248125, 014641001128, 014641001104.

UPC

66049248116

Reason for recall

JCB Flavors is conducting a recall on various Seasonings which used ground cumin as an ingredient received in Oct - Dec 2014. JCB Flavors was informed by their supplier of ground cumin, Schiff Food Products, that the product tested positive for trace amounts of peanut allergens.

Recalling firm

JCB Flavors, LLC

Firm location

Sullivan, Wisconsin, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-2120-2015

Quantity

1040 lbs total from all products.

Distribution

WI, IL, MN, CA, IN, NJ, AR.

Initiated

8 January 2015

Reported by FDA

6 May 2015

Terminated

5 July 2017

Firm notified by

Letter

Product codes

Lot Codes: 2927E, 2686E.

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

• Class I means the FDA judged a reasonable probability that the product would cause serious health consequences or death. 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 42 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 42 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 42. All 42 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 2.5 years, from 8 January 2015 to termination on 5 July 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 distribution pattern names 7 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 months after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a spice or seasoning run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Spices are a low-moisture, globally sourced, minimally processed ingredient that is added after any kill step, which is the combination that makes Salmonella in a spice lot capable of contaminating every product it was blended into.

Named in the distribution pattern: Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, California, Indiana, New Jersey, Arkansas. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

Filed under spices and seasonings. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 42 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 41 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.

Other spices and seasonings 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 JCB Flavors, LLC

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 51 other records name this firm.

All 52 records for JCB Flavors, LLC

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