OSSIE'S PICKLED LOX DAIRY, NET WT. 8 OZ., UPC 739885114136; -- Far Rockaway, NY 11691…
SM Fish Corp. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 2 November 2016 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. The products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes based on the findings of the bacteria in the plant via FDA environmental sampling plus the district's inspectional findings
The record
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- Product
- OSSIE'S PICKLED LOX DAIRY, NET WT. 8 OZ., UPC 739885114136; -- Far Rockaway, NY 11691 --- The product is packed in a plastic deli tub.
- UPC
- 739885114136
- Reason for recall
- The products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes based on the findings of the bacteria in the plant via FDA environmental sampling plus the district's inspectional findings
- Recalling firm
- SM Fish Corp.
- Firm location
- Far Rockaway, New York, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0235-2017
- Quantity
- 70 units
- Distribution
- New York and New Jersey via retail stores
- Initiated
- 15 September 2016
- Reported by FDA
- 2 November 2016
- Terminated
- 17 April 2017
- Firm notified by
- Press Release
- Product codes
- Best By date codes of 08/21/16 through 10/18/16
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class I means the FDA judged a reasonable probability that the product would cause serious health consequences or death. 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 19 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 19 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 19. 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 19 of them.
- The recall ran for 7 months, from 15 September 2016 to termination on 17 April 2017. 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 7 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of milk or a dairy product run a median of 7 months, so this one was about typical 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.
What this recall was for
Listeria monocytogenes
Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium that grows at refrigeration temperature, which is why it dominates recalls of ready-to-eat foods that are never cooked again before they are eaten.
A preventive controls plan covers Listeria 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 117.135(c)(3)
- Sanitation controls: the controls on cleaning food-contact surfaces and on preventing cross-contact and cross-contamination from insanitary objects, people and equipment.
- 21 CFR 117.165(a)(3)
- Environmental monitoring: testing the processing environment for an environmental pathogen, required when a ready-to-eat food is exposed to the environment before packaging.
- 21 CFR 117.150
- Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.
Filed under milk and dairy and prepared meals and sandwiches. 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 SM Fish Corp.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 35 other records name this firm.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-11-02 | OSSIE'S PICKLED LOX & CREAM, NET WT. 8 OZ., UPC 739885104113; -- Far Rockaway, NY 11691 --- The product is packed in a plastic deli tub. | SM Fish Corp. | The products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes based on the findings of the bacteria in the plant via FDA environmental sampling plus the district's inspectional findings | Class I |
| 2016-11-02 | OSSIE'S STIGLITZ HERRING, NET WT. 7 OZ., UPC 739885109064; -- Far Rockaway, NY 11691 --- The product is packed in a plastic deli tub. | SM Fish Corp. | The products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes based on the findings of the bacteria in the plant via FDA environmental sampling plus the district's inspectional findings | Class I |
| 2016-11-02 | OSSIE'S SHMALTZ HERRING, NET WT. 8 OZ., UPC 739885104182; -- Far Rockaway, NY 11691 --- The product is packed in a plastic deli tub. | SM Fish Corp. | The products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes based on the findings of the bacteria in the plant via FDA environmental sampling plus the district's inspectional findings | Class I |
| 2016-11-02 | OSSIE'S EGG WITH SCALLION, NET WT. 7 OZ., UPC 73988570555; -- Far Rockaway, NY 11691 --- The product is packed in a plastic deli tub. | SM Fish Corp. | The products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes based on the findings of the bacteria in the plant via FDA environmental sampling plus the district's inspectional findings | Class I |
| 2016-11-02 | OSSIE'S PICKLED LOX, NET WT. 8 OZ., UPC 739885104137; -- Far Rockaway, NY 11691 --- The product is packed in a plastic deli tub. | SM Fish Corp. | The products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes based on the findings of the bacteria in the plant via FDA environmental sampling plus the district's inspectional findings | Class I |
| 2016-11-02 | OSSIE'S DUBLIN HERRING, NET WT. 7 OZ., UPC 739885109002; -- Far Rockaway, NY 11691 --- The product is packed in a plastic deli tub. | SM Fish Corp. | The products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes based on the findings of the bacteria in the plant via FDA environmental sampling plus the district's inspectional findings | Class I |
| 2016-11-02 | OSSIE'S PICKLED HERRING CLEAR, NET WT. 8 OZ., UPC 739885104205; -- Far Rockaway, NY 11691 --- The product is packed in a plastic deli tub. | SM Fish Corp. | The products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes based on the findings of the bacteria in the plant via FDA environmental sampling plus the district's inspectional findings | Class I |
| 2016-11-02 | OSSIE'S WASABI HERRING, NET WT. 7 OZ., UPC 739885109088; -- Far Rockaway, NY 11691 --- The product is packed in a plastic deli tub. | SM Fish Corp. | The products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes based on the findings of the bacteria in the plant via FDA environmental sampling plus the district's inspectional findings | Class I |
| 2016-11-02 | OSSIE'S ROMAN SHMALTZ HERRING, NET WT. 7 OZ., UPC 739885109026; -- Far Rockaway, NY 11691 --- The product is packed in a plastic deli tub. | SM Fish Corp. | The products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes based on the findings of the bacteria in the plant via FDA environmental sampling plus the district's inspectional findings | Class I |
| 2016-11-02 | OSSIE'S TAAM SHABBOS HERRING, NET WT. 7 OZ., UPC 739885109057; -- Far Rockaway, NY 11691 --- The product is packed in a plastic deli tub. | SM Fish Corp. | The products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes based on the findings of the bacteria in the plant via FDA environmental sampling plus the district's inspectional findings | Class I |
All 36 records for SM Fish Corp.
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