Premium Quality Shirakiku Fish Sausage Original Net wt. 9.8 oz. (280g) UPC 074410366414…
Wismettac Asian Foods, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 4 January 2023 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Undeclared collagen (bovine dermis) casing
The record
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- Product
- Premium Quality Shirakiku Fish Sausage Original Net wt. 9.8 oz. (280g) UPC 074410366414 Ingredients: Fish meat (bream, sugar, sodium tripolyphosphate, wheat starch, corn oil, less than 1.5% of salt, soy protein, sugar, maltodextrin, onion powder, garlic powder, yeast extract, disodium inosinate, disodium guamylate, oleoresin black pepper, garlic oil, onion oil, nutmeg oil, corn starch, monosodium glutamate, dextrose anhydrous, d-xylose, sodium tripolyphosphate, glucose, ginger extract, cochineal extract color. Contains: Bream, Wheat, Soybean This product was processed in a facility that also processes food containing egg, milk, crustacean. May contain traces of egg, milk, crustacean. Product of Korea Imported by Wismettac Asian Foods, Inc. Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
- UPC
- 074410366414
- Reason for recall
- Undeclared collagen (bovine dermis) casing
- Recalling firm
- Wismettac Asian Foods, Inc.
- Firm location
- Santa Fe Springs, California, United States
- Classification
- Class III
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0209-2023
- Quantity
- 200 cases (4,780 individual units)
- Distribution
- U.S. distribution to the following: - CA, AZ, FL, FA, IL, IN, KA, LA, MA, MI, MN, MO, NC, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, TN, TX, TU, WA, WI No foreign distribution.
- Initiated
- 30 November 2022
- Reported by FDA
- 4 January 2023
- Terminated
- 18 September 2023
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- All lots
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class III means the FDA judged that the product was unlikely to cause harm but violated FDA labelling or manufacturing regulation. 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 2 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 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. 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 2 of them.
- The recall ran for 10 months, from 30 November 2022 to termination on 18 September 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 21 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of milk or a dairy product run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Dairy recalls split between pathogen contamination in products that skipped or under-ran pasteurisation and undeclared milk in products that should never have contained it, which is the same allergen viewed from two directions.
Named in the distribution pattern: Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Washington. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
What this recall was for
Undeclared allergens
An undeclared allergen recall means a food contained one of the major allergens and the label did not say so, either because the wrong label was applied or because an ingredient carried an allergen nobody traced.
A preventive controls plan covers an undeclared allergen 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 117.135(c)(2)
- Food allergen controls: the written preventive controls that keep an allergen out of a food it does not belong in, and that get the allergens present onto the label.
- 21 CFR 101.4
- Ingredient declaration: every ingredient listed by its common name, in descending order of predominance, on the label of a packaged food.
- 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.
Filed under milk and dairy, fresh produce, fish and seafood, meat and poultry, dietary supplements, spices and seasonings and eggs. A product can sit in more than one.
Other milk and dairy 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 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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21 CFR 117.135(c)(2) 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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