Class IIOngoing · reported 2025-12-17

3 B Cookware 4

India's Fine Foods, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 17 December 2025 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Potential contamination due to leachable lead.

The record

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Product: 3 B Cookware 4
Reason for recall: Potential contamination due to leachable lead.
Recalling firm: India's Fine Foods, Inc.
Firm location: West Sacramento, California, United States
Classification: Class II
Status: Ongoing
Recall number: H-0242-2026
Quantity: 8 pieces
Distribution: U.S. Distribution: CA, WA
Initiated: 28 October 2025
Reported by FDA: 17 December 2025
Firm notified by: Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes: UPC: 0884964120031

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 3 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 3 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 3. All 3 of them are listed on this page.
This recall has no termination date on the record, so as published it had not been terminated under 21 CFR 7.55.
The distribution pattern names 1 state, and the FDA published the enforcement report 7 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.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 3 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 2 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.

The other 2 records of FDA event 97898
Reported	Product	Firm	Reason	Class
2025-12-17	3 B Cookware 6	India's Fine Foods, Inc.	Potential contamination due to leachable lead.	Class II
2025-12-17	3 B Cookware 5	India's Fine Foods, Inc.	Potential contamination due to leachable lead.	Class II

Other records from India's Fine Foods, Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.

Reported	Product	Firm	Reason	Class
2025-12-17	3 B Cookware 6	India's Fine Foods, Inc.	Potential contamination due to leachable lead.	Class II
2025-12-17	3 B Cookware 5	India's Fine Foods, Inc.	Potential contamination due to leachable lead.	Class II

All 3 records for India's Fine Foods, Inc.

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21 CFR 117.35(b) is the clause behind this recall, and it is one somebody has to produce evidence for at their next audit. Krolda maps supplier documents to the clause they satisfy in FSSC 22000, IFS Food and 21 CFR 117, and routes the corrective action when the evidence is missing.

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