Spicy Maria Salsa, D.A.M. brand, Net Wt. 16 oz (453 g), UPC 1-87283-00003-0

Paradigm Foodworks, Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 15 July 2015 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Spicy Maria Salsa, D.A.M. brand, containing ground cumin ingredient, is recalled due to potential for contamination with peanut protein.

The record

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Product

Spicy Maria Salsa, D.A.M. brand, Net Wt. 16 oz (453 g), UPC 1-87283-00003-0

UPC

187283000030

Reason for recall

Spicy Maria Salsa, D.A.M. brand, containing ground cumin ingredient, is recalled due to potential for contamination with peanut protein.

Recalling firm

Paradigm Foodworks, Inc

Firm location

Lake Oswego, Oregon, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-2833-2015

Quantity

24 cases (12/16 oz. bottles per case) + 9 bottles

Distribution

distributed directly to Idaho, California, Oregon and Washington and in Ontario, Canada.

Initiated

9 January 2015

Reported by FDA

15 July 2015

Terminated

25 August 2015

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

Best by date: 5/14/2016 Lot code: 31814-4

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 20 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 20 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 20. 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 20 of them.
• The recall ran for 7 months, from 9 January 2015 to termination on 25 August 2015. 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 6 months 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.

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 Paradigm Foodworks, Inc

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 19 other records name this firm.

All 20 records for Paradigm Foodworks, Inc

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