Class IIOngoing · reported 2026-02-25

Aluminum Kadai with Metal Handles Size 5. A-Cook MADE IN INDIA SIZE 5 Sticker label…

Lotus Mom Corporation dba Indian Kitchen Mart recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 25 February 2026 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Potential contamination with leachable lead.

The record

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Product
Aluminum Kadai with Metal Handles Size 5. A-Cook MADE IN INDIA SIZE 5 Sticker label: $$24.99+TX
Reason for recall
Potential contamination with leachable lead.
Firm location
San Jose, California, United States
Classification
Class II
Status
Ongoing
Recall number
H-0513-2026
Quantity
43 units
Distribution
U.S. Distribution: CA, CO
Initiated
21 November 2025
Reported by FDA
25 February 2026
Firm notified by
Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

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 4 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 4 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 4. 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 4 of them.
  • 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 3 months 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.

Other records from Lotus Mom Corporation dba Indian Kitchen Mart

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

All 4 records for Lotus Mom Corporation dba Indian Kitchen Mart

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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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