Clear glass bottle with black screw lid with multi label which reads in part as…
Africando Foods LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 2 September 2026 as Not Yet Classified. The recall was initiated by the firm. Labeling, wheat not listed as sub ingredient of chicken bouillon (minor ingredient), and soybean oil missing from ingredient list
The record
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- Product
- Clear glass bottle with black screw lid with multi label which reads in part as "***AFRICANDO FOODS, LLC ALFREDO HOT SAUCE, Net Weight 8 oz. ***INGREDIENTS: Habenaro Peppers, Garlic, Onions, Water, Distilled 5% White Vinegar, Spices***Manufactured and Packed By Africando Foods, LLC 1121S Gilbert Ct. Iowa City, IA 52240***"
- Reason for recall
- Labeling, wheat not listed as sub ingredient of chicken bouillon (minor ingredient), and soybean oil missing from ingredient list
- Recalling firm
- Africando Foods LLC
- Firm location
- Iowa City, Iowa, United States
- Classification
- Not Yet Classified
- Status
- Ongoing
- Recall number
- N/A
- Quantity
- N/A
- Distribution
- 8 wholesale and retail locations in IA, KY and IL
- Initiated
- 10 August 2026
- Reported by FDA
- 2 September 2026
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- UPC: 860004527114 AF25296, exp. 10/23/2026 AF25303, exp. 10/30/2026 AF25319, exp. 11/15/2026 AF25333, exp. 11/29/2026 AF25343, exp. 12/09/2026 AF25357, exp. 12/23/2026
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- The FDA had not classified this recall when the record was published.
- 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.
- 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 2 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Fresh produce is the category where contamination arrives before the facility does: irrigation water, soil amendments and field workers are the routes, and nothing downstream of the farm is a kill step for a product eaten raw.
Named in the distribution pattern: Kentucky, Illinois. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
What this recall was for
Undeclared allergens
An undeclared allergen recall means a food contained one of the major allergens and the label did not say so, either because the wrong label was applied or because an ingredient carried an allergen nobody traced.
A preventive controls plan covers an undeclared allergen 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 117.135(c)(2)
- Food allergen controls: the written preventive controls that keep an allergen out of a food it does not belong in, and that get the allergens present onto the label.
- 21 CFR 101.4
- Ingredient declaration: every ingredient listed by its common name, in descending order of predominance, on the label of a packaged food.
- 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.
The allergens named in this record: soy, wheat.
Filed under fresh produce, sauces, dips and condiments and spices and seasonings. A product can sit in more than one.
Other fresh produce recalls for the same reason
These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food, recalled for a hazard this record also names. Unlike the firm’s own records below, they come from different companies, which is what makes them a pattern rather than a history.
All 2026 recalls · All FDA food recall data
21 CFR 117.135(c)(2) 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.
Early accessRecall records come from the openFDA food enforcement API, published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain. Krolda adds the hazard classification and the clause mapping; neither is an FDA determination. Always check the FDA notice before acting on a recall.