Refrigerated, Ready to Eat Herring in Brine under firms brand name FRESH SEAFOOD…

Royal Seafood Baza recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 16 November 2016 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Royal Seafood Baza, Inc. has recalled all pickled products produced on 3/1/2016, 3/2/2016 and also all herring products produced on 2/29/2016 due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.

The record

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Product

Refrigerated, Ready to Eat Herring in Brine under firms brand name FRESH SEAFOOD packaged in a 10.9 oz. (310g) plastic retail container labeled in part ***FRESH**SEAFOOD**Herring Fillet in Oil Forelka Style**Net Wt. 10.0 oz. (310g)** UPC # 825512 004915

UPC

825512004915

Reason for recall

Royal Seafood Baza, Inc. has recalled all pickled products produced on 3/1/2016, 3/2/2016 and also all herring products produced on 2/29/2016 due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.

Recalling firm

Royal Seafood Baza

Firm location

Staten Island, New York, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0385-2017

Quantity

120 units

Distribution

NY & PA via retail stores

Initiated

18 March 2016

Reported by FDA

16 November 2016

Terminated

14 June 2018

Firm notified by

E-Mail

Product codes

lot code 05.15.2016.

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 29 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 29 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 29. 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 29 of them.
• The recall ran for 2.2 years, from 18 March 2016 to termination on 14 June 2018. 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 8 months after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of fish or seafood run a median of 5 months, so this one was longer 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 Royal Seafood Baza

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 28 other records name this firm.

All 29 records for Royal Seafood Baza

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