King Oscar Anchovies Flat Fillet in Olive Oil 2 oz. can 18 cans per carton UPC number…
Tri-Union Frozen Products Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 28 December 2022 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Anchovies found to have elevated levels of histamine
The record
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- Product
- King Oscar Anchovies Flat Fillet in Olive Oil 2 oz. can 18 cans per carton UPC number: 3480060061 Ingredients: Anchovies, Olive Oil, Salt. Packed in Peru Distributed by: Tri-Union Seafoods, LLC, El Segundo, CA 90245 USA
- Reason for recall
- Anchovies found to have elevated levels of histamine
- Recalling firm
- Tri-Union Frozen Products Inc
- Firm location
- El Segundo, California, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0204-2023
- Quantity
- 263 cases
- Distribution
- Product was distributed to 2 DC's. DOT Foods, Inc. 0 Mount Sterling, IL UNFI - Chesterfield, NH
- Initiated
- 7 December 2022
- Reported by FDA
- 28 December 2022
- Terminated
- 17 May 2023
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- CSN-2111/1, CSN-2111/2, CSN-2112/1, CSN-2111/2, CSN-2115/1, 2115/2, 2117/2 Best if used by April 2023
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 5 months, from 7 December 2022 to termination on 17 May 2023. 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 1 state, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of fish or seafood run a median of 5 months, so this one was about typical 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
Chemical contamination
A chemical contamination recall covers a substance that is harmful in food and was never meant to be there: a heavy metal, a cleaning chemical, a pesticide residue, or a natural toxin such as aflatoxin or histamine.
A preventive controls plan covers chemical contamination under the clauses below. This is where the control belongs, not a finding against any firm named on this page: a recall record states a reason, and most of these recalls were initiated by the firm itself.
- 21 CFR 117.35(b)
- Substances used in cleaning and sanitizing: toxic materials stored, identified and used so they cannot contaminate food, food-contact surfaces or packaging.
- 21 CFR 117 subpart G
- Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
- 21 CFR 117.130(b)(1)(ii)
- Hazard analysis: identifying the known or reasonably foreseeable chemical hazards, including radiological hazards, pesticide and drug residues, natural toxins and food decomposition.
Filed under fish and seafood and spices and seasonings. A product can sit in more than one.
Other fish and seafood recalls for the same reason
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Other records from Tri-Union Frozen Products Inc
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21 CFR 117.35(b) is the clause behind this recall, and it is one somebody has to produce evidence for at their next audit. Krolda maps supplier documents to the clause they satisfy in FSSC 22000, IFS Food and 21 CFR 117, and routes the corrective action when the evidence is missing.
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