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HighFDA (Food)·F-0164-2022·Announced 2021-11-24

Carolina Ingredients Smoked Peppered Bacon Seasoning Recalled for Possible Lead

Carolina Ingredients is recalling its Smoked Peppered Bacon Seasoning due to possible lead contamination. The product was shipped to a customer in Georgia.

What this means for you

Real risk of harm even if no illness or injury has been reported yet. Stop using the product and follow the agency's guidance.

Our severity reasoning: This is an FDA Class II recall for a potential heavy metal contaminant (lead) in a food seasoning product. The source text does not report any confirmed illness or injury, and the contamination is described as "possible" pending lab results. Per the rubric, a hazard with theoretical risk and no reported illness typically scores at most 3 (High).

Plain-English summary

Carolina Ingredients, LLC of Rock Hill, South Carolina, is recalling its Smoked Peppered Bacon Seasoning because the firm was notified by their customer of possible lead in the product.

The firm sent samples of the product to a laboratory for testing. All product was shipped to one customer in Georgia.

The recalled product

Product
Carolina Ingredients Smoked Peppered Bacon Seasoning Mfr. By: Carolina Ingredients, LLC Rock Hill, SC 29730
Manufacturer
Carolina Ingredients
Category
Food — Seasonings / Spices
Hazard

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Distribution

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Part of a larger recall action

This product is one of 6 recalled by Carolina Ingredients under a single FDA (Food) recall action. The agency files each product separately, so the size of the action is not visible from this page alone.

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