PACIFIC SALMON, sold under brand The Garibaldi Cannery, Net weight 6 oz. (170 gram).

The Garibaldi Cannery, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 16 December 2015 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. The canned Pacific Salmon product is recalled because it has the potential to be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum.

The record

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Product

PACIFIC SALMON, sold under brand The Garibaldi Cannery, Net weight 6 oz. (170 gram). No UPC

Reason for recall

The canned Pacific Salmon product is recalled because it has the potential to be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum.

Recalling firm

The Garibaldi Cannery, LLC

Firm location

Garibaldi, Oregon, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0165-2016

Quantity

Undetermined.

Distribution

distributed in Oregon and sold to internet customers nationwide.

Initiated

13 October 2015

Reported by FDA

16 December 2015

Terminated

28 January 2016

Firm notified by

Telephone

Product codes

Any codes starting with OC. Last date of distribution of recalled product was September 2015.

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 is one of 10 records covering the same recall event. The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so a recall of a product line appears here many times. Counting these records as 10 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 10. Every product code in this event is listed together on the record that covers the whole recall, which is the page a search engine is pointed to for all 10 of them.
• The recall ran for 4 months, from 13 October 2015 to termination on 28 January 2016. 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 FDA published the enforcement report 2 months after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of fish or seafood run a median of 5 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Fish and fishery products are the one food category with their own HACCP regulation in the United States, 21 CFR part 123, because the hazards are species-specific: histamine in scombroid fish, ciguatera in reef fish, and Listeria in cold-smoked products.

What this recall was for

Filed under fish and seafood. A product can sit in more than one.

Other fish and seafood recalls for the same reason

These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food, recalled for a hazard this record also names. 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 The Garibaldi Cannery, LLC

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 9 other records name this firm.

All 10 records for The Garibaldi Cannery, LLC

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