I just called my supplier of Sriracha Sauce...

[PornDiscounts-V]

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/lo...235504481.html

And they told me they will be out of stock for at least a month!

The Southern California-based maker of Sriracha has been told it can't ship any more of its popular hot sauce to food distributors until next month because the state Department of Public Health is enforcing stricter guidelines that require a 30-day hold on the product.

Huy Fong Foods began following those guidelines this week, operations manager Donna Lam told the Los Angeles Times. That means the latest batch of sauces won't arrive in stores and restaurants until mid-January.

Health department spokeswoman Anita Gore told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the 30-day hold is needed to "ensure an effective treatment of microorganisms present in the product."

"Holding products for a period of time at a specified pH level is one method of controlling those microorganisms," Gore said in an email. She added that Huy Fong got the order after state officials reviewed the way its sauces are produced. Companies using similar methods face the same requirements, she said.

The hold is the second setback for Huy Fong Foods in recent weeks.

The Los Angeles suburb of Irwindale is suing the company for filling its air with spicy odors that residents say make their eyes burn and take their breath away.

Last month, a judge ordered Huy Fong to stop producing the smells until air-quality experts can determine how to mitigate them.

The odors are only produced during pepper-grinding season, which extends from August until late October or early November.

Damon Chu of Asian food supplier Giant Union says the hold could prompt customers to switch to other brands of hot sauce. He also told the Times it could cost him as much as $300,000 in lost business, adding he has no supplies backlogged because Huy Fong ships the sauce as it's bottled.

"We have already received more than 30 angry phone calls today," he said. "It drives me crazy because this is the first time we have been in this situation."

Huy Fong's flaming hot Sriracha sauce, in its distinctive green-tipped squeeze bottle with a drawing of a rooster on the side, has become hugely popular in both Asia and the United States.

[slapass]

Great. That bottle is in every decent kitchen in the US, and it is not safe to eat?

[Colmike9]

Real Sriracha comes from Thailand..

[PornDiscounts-V]

Because of the high acidity it should be just fine. What is odd is that they only harvest chilis for a few months out of the year in the fall. So anything they produce in August was harvested way back in December...

[L-Pink]

Originally Posted by slapass

Great. That bottle is in every decent kitchen in the US, and it is not safe to eat?

It's safe to eat, it just needs to be manufactured like it was meth. Out in the middle of no-where not next to where people live/work and complain about the fumes.


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[PornDiscounts-V]

Our City of Industry, CA version is much better. ;)

[Supz]

this is like 6 weeks old. But thanks.

[facialfreak]

The Huy Fong company has already publicly said that they have completed the 2013 run, which will give them enough inventory until around April of 2015 ...

[facialfreak]

If anybody is looking for PREMIUM QUALITY SMALL BATCH PEPPER SAUCES .... this guy is just down the road from me, and every one of his products are OUTSTANDING!!!

He ships worldwide!

www.peppermaster.ca

[AllAboutCams]

i love this stuff the funny thing is i have a bottle sat on my desk

[PornDiscounts-V]

The 30 day stoppage is recent days news. They cannot distribute so even if they have supplies until 2015, they cannot put them on a truck. All stores in the Los Angeles area are bare.