Class I · Recall · initiated April 22, 2026 · Terminated
Givaudan recalls 24,000 lbs of bulk cheese sauce seasoning shipped to one Missouri plant
Givaudan Flavors of Cincinnati recalled 24,012 lbs of a bulk seasoning for cheese sauce, packed in 43.5 lb kraft bags and sold to a single manufacturer in Missouri, for potential Salmonella contamination.
The record
- Firm
- Givaudan Flavors Corp, Cincinnati, OH
- Product
- Bulk WN-976-782-1 Seasoning for Cheese Sauce, Net Wt. 43.50 lbs., in a brown kraft bag
- Reason, as filed
- “Product has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.”
- Classification
- Class I (Class I: reasonable probability of serious health consequences or death)
- Recall number
- H-0837-2026
- Initiated
- April 22, 2026
- Posted by FDA
- May 13, 2026
- Status
- Terminated · Voluntary: Firm initiated
- Quantity
- 24,012 lbs.
- Distribution
- 1 manufacturer in MO
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Why it happened, in plain English
The filed reason: “Product has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.” The record does not say what raised the concern, and unlike some other seasoning recalls filed the same month, this one does not name an ingredient. What it does say: one product code, 24,012 lbs, one customer, a manufacturer in Missouri.
A seasoning “for Cheese Sauce” is a dry blend that goes into someone else’s product. The 43.5 lb kraft bags were never meant for a shelf. So the real question this record raises is what the Missouri manufacturer made from 24,000 lbs of seasoning, and whether that finished product got a kill step. Cheese sauce that is cooked and hot-filled may have one; a dry cheese-sauce mix does not. The record does not say which. The recall is listed as terminated.
Who else should care
Manufacturers with single-source seasoning contracts from large flavor houses. A dedicated code like this one is usually a custom formula, and the customer’s own product is the only place it goes. That makes tracing simple but the exposure total: every lot made with the seasoning is in question at once.
Check: whether the product that uses your seasoning has a validated kill step after the seasoning goes in, or whether the blend is added after cooking.
Written 2026-09-08. Analysis is editorial; the record above is FDA's.