About Ussauceinc

Ussauceinc, trading at ussauceinc.com, is an FDA-registered acidified foods production facility and contract hot sauce co-packer based in St Charles, Illinois. The company operates its manufacturing facility and testing laboratory at 1315 E Main St, St Charles, Illinois 60174, St Charles, Illinois, United States. Direct telephone inquiries reach our desk at 630-762-8880, and business inquiries or data requests are handled at [email protected].

The company operates under the law of Illinois, United States, with legal disputes heard in the courts of St Charles.

Contract manufacturing operations cover hot sauce bottling, acidified food co-packing, recipe onboarding, and digital pH stabilization for food businesses, restaurant brands, and wholesale distributors:

• Commercial Bottling & Packaging: Packaging acidified hot sauces and pepper condiments into standard 5 oz woozy glass bottles, sealed with heat-shrink bands and boxed into 12-bottle corrugated shipping cases.
• Flexible Batch Sizes: Small-batch pilot runs from 500 to 2,500 units up to contract volume pallet runs of 25,000 units ($500 to $25,000 order scale).
• Digital pH Safety & Process Control: Every batch is held below calibrated 4.00 pH on duplicate glass-electrode tests (surpassing 21 CFR Part 114 regulatory requirement of 4.60 pH), with validated thermal kill curves and process authority documentation.
• Recipe Formulation & Onboarding: Pilot test runs, moisture titration, and Scoville heat balance at $550 to $2,525 per formula, with contract bottling at $2.40 to $8.00 per bottle and a 6 to 10 week production turnaround.
• Site Operations: This website serves purely as an informational and commercial inquiry portal; we do not maintain customer accounts, passwords, or accept payment card transactions online. Inquiries are processed via our secure form (homu00d.php) and quote intake.

Our processing lines and laboratory operations are directed by lead food technologist Ivan Petrov, who has managed formulation safety, thermal kill curves, and bench digital pH testing at our St Charles plant since 2021. Under Petrov’s oversight, every commercial recipe onboarding clears standardized pilot trials, moisture titration, Scoville balance analysis, and process authority documentation before hot filling begins.

Under federal standards (21 CFR Part 114), acidified foods require an equilibrium pH of 4.6 or lower to guarantee commercial sterility. At Ussauceinc, our operational threshold is stricter: no batch is packaged until duplicate calibrated glass-electrode digital readings test below 4.00 pH. We maintain verified production records, temperature hold logs, and retention samples for every customer lot.

Our facility maintains active acidified food registration with a baseline commercial capacity of 2,500 bottles per year, accommodating pilot runs from 500 units up to volume pallet contracts of 25,000 units.

We operate with transparent pricing structures to serve food businesses that find traditional industrial packagers inaccessible:

• Recipe Development & Pilot Setup: $550 to $2,525 one-time onboarding fee per unique formulation, including bench iterations, pH curves, and process authority review.
• Contract Wholesale Bottling: $2.40 to $8.00 per bottle, packed 12 bottles per corrugated shipping case (standard 5 oz woozy glass).
• Minimum Batch Runs: 500 to 2,500 bottles per scheduled run, with contract pallet volumes up to 25,000 units ($500 to $25,000 order scale).
• Production Lead Time: Predictable 6 to 10 week scheduling from recipe approval and packaging material intake.

To reach a live human representative for batch quotes, facility visits, recipe development consultations, or regulatory inquiries, contact our St Charles desk directly: