Food Safety
March 9, 2010
Due to the recently-announced Basic Food Flavors recall of Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein (HVP), we are initiating a product recall involving the following items distributed by Diamond Crystal Sales, LLC:
This recall includes only these items and lot numbers:
Ginsberg's Item 76782: Herb Ox® Chicken Seasoning Packet 6/50: Lot #s: V01290, V02030, V02040, V02080
Ginsberg's Item 74784: Herb Ox® Beef Seasoning Packet 6/50: Lot #: V01190
Code Date Example - CO4012 1
C= Plant Identifier
04=Month
01=Day of Month
2=Year (2002)
1= 1st shift
These products contain the HVP ingredient implicated in the recently-announced Basic Food Flavors recall and may be contaminated with Salmonella. These products are not to be consumed or served.
We are initiating this recall after learning that CCPC, a manufacturer that provided Herb Ox® packets to Diamond Crystal, was recalling some of its products affected by the Basic Food Flavors recall.
Salmonella is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. In rare circumstances, infection with Salmonella can result in the organism getting into the bloodstream and producing more severe illnesses such as arterial infections (i.e., infected aneurysms), endocarditis and arthritis.
Diamond Crystal Brands requests that you immediately examine your inventory of these products, and destroy.
CUSTOMER INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Please destroy all product, fill out and sign the destruction form and send back to Jean Sandagato, Inside Sales Manager, fax # 518-828-5653
For more information on food safety, visit www.fda.gov .
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RECALL BACKGROUND & DEFINITIONS
Recalls are actions taken by a firm to remove a product from the market. Recalls may be conducted on a firm's own initiative, by FDA request, or by FDA order under statutory authority.
Class I recall: a situation in which there is a reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death. Examples of products that could fall into this category are a food found to contain botulinal toxin, food with undeclared allergens, a label mix-up on a life saving drug, or a defective artificial heart valve.
Class II recall: a situation in which use of or exposure to a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote. Examples of products that could fall into this category are a food found to contain botulinal toxin, food with undeclared allergens, a label mix-up on a life saving drug, or a defective artificial heart valve.
Class III recall: a situation in which use of or exposure to a violative product is not likely to cause adverse health consequences. Examples might be a container defect (plastic material delaminating or a lid that does not seal); off-taste, color, or leaks in a bottled drink, and lack of English labeling in a retail food.
Market withdrawal: occurs when a product has a minor violation that would not be subject to FDA legal action. The firm removes the product from the market or corrects the violation. For example, a product removed from the market due to tampering, without evidence of manufacturing or distribution problems, would be a market withdrawal.