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Paprika Powder HyTop 12/2.5oz, Merchants Spice Chain Corporation · reported 2018-01-17
Terminated This recall has been closed out by the agency.
- Reason for recall
- Spice Chain Corporation has decided to initiate a product recall of Paprika after receiving several consumer complaints of finding beetles in retail containers.
- Classification
- Class II
- Recall initiated
- 2017-12-12
- Reported by the agency
- 2018-01-17
- Closed out (terminated)
- 2021-09-23
- Recalling firm
- Spice Chain Corporation
East Brunswick, NJ
United StatesThis is the firm that issued the recall — commonly a distributor or processor. It is not the origin of contamination.
- Distribution (the agency's own words)
- All product sold by Spice Chain was shipped within the United States.
- States we parsed from that text
- could not be parsed
No state list could be read from the agency's text. Absence here is not evidence the product stayed put.
- Food category
- Sauces, condiments & spicesderived
Assigned by a reviewed keyword rulebook over the product description, not by the agency.
- Recall type
- Voluntary: Firm initiated
- Recall number
- F-0649-2018
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