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Tasty Sawa Ground Turmeric, 50 lb bag. Manufactured by Spices USA. Spices USA Inc. · reported 2017-03-29
Ongoing The agency has not recorded this recall as closed out.
- Reason for recall
- Product contains elevated levels of lead.
- Classification
- Class I
- Recall initiated
- 2016-08-17
- Reported by the agency
- 2017-03-29
- Closed out (terminated)
- not reported
- Recalling firm
- Spices USA Inc.
Hialeah, FL
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)
- Distributed within the state of Florida and in the following countries: France, Jamaica, Columbia, Dominican Republic, Barbados, Honduras, St John Antigua
- States we parsed from that text
- FL
The agency named these states. Parse method explicit_state_list, confidence high.
- 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-1640-2017
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