Class ITerminated · reported 2025-12-10

Sonex brand aluminum pot; ISO 9001:2000; Made in Pakistan

Alanwar Food Corp. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 10 December 2025 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Products found to contain leachable lead levels (0.323mg/L)

The record

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Product: Sonex brand aluminum pot; ISO 9001:2000; Made in Pakistan
Reason for recall: Products found to contain leachable lead levels (0.323mg/L)
Recalling firm: Alanwar Food Corp.
Firm location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Classification: Class I
Status: Terminated
Recall number: H-0234-2026
Quantity: 2 units
Distribution: NY
Initiated: 19 November 2025
Reported by FDA: 10 December 2025
Terminated: 6 March 2026
Firm notified by: Other
Product codes: No codes

Reading this record

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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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
The recall ran for 4 months, from 19 November 2025 to termination on 6 March 2026. 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 3 weeks after the firm began the recall.
The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.

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.

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