Shirakiku Buckwheat Noodles Yamaimo Soba With Concentration Soup Base, 435G SK, UPC…

Wismettac Asian Foods, INC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 30 October 2019 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product label identifies bonito, but product dipping sauce actually contains skipjack tuna, yellowfin tuna, and bluefin tuna as well as does not state the general allergen name of fish.

The record

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Product

Shirakiku Buckwheat Noodles Yamaimo Soba With Concentration Soup Base, 435G SK, UPC 074410455200 Distributed by Wismettac Asian Foods, Inc. Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670

UPC

074410455200

Reason for recall

Product label identifies bonito, but product dipping sauce actually contains skipjack tuna, yellowfin tuna, and bluefin tuna as well as does not state the general allergen name of fish.

Recalling firm

Wismettac Asian Foods, INC

Firm location

Santa Fe Springs, California, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0059-2020

Quantity

7,789 packs

Distribution

U.S. distribution to the following: AK, AZ, CA, CO, IL, KS, MA, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, WA No foreign distribution.

Initiated

18 September 2019

Reported by FDA

30 October 2019

Terminated

20 December 2019

Firm notified by

Letter

Product codes

All Codes

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

• Class II means the FDA judged a remote probability of serious harm, or a probability of temporary or medically reversible harm. The class is assigned by an agency health hazard evaluation under 21 CFR 7.41, not by the firm.
• The firm started this recall itself. Most FDA food recalls are voluntary, and a recall is a food safety plan working rather than failing. The circumstances in which the agency asks for one instead are set out in 21 CFR 7.45.
• This record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
• The recall ran for 3 months, from 18 September 2019 to termination on 20 December 2019. Termination means the agency judged that all reasonable effort had been made, under 21 CFR 7.55, and it says nothing about whether product remained in circulation.
• The distribution pattern names 15 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 6 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a grain, flour or pasta product run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Flour is a raw agricultural product that consumers treat as though it were cooked, which is the whole reason raw flour recalls exist: nothing in milling is a kill step, and the hazard only appears when somebody eats the dough.

Named in the distribution pattern: Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

Filed under grains, flour and pasta and prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.

Other grains, flour and pasta recalls

These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. Unlike the firm’s own records below, they come from different companies, which is what makes them a pattern rather than a history.

Other records from Wismettac Asian Foods, INC

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 30 other records name this firm.

All 31 records for Wismettac Asian Foods, INC

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