Fish Ball in Polybag 24/12oz., Item no. 20072, UPC Code 087703200722

Wang Globalnet recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 20 December 2017 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Fish products contain undeclared egg and wheat.

The record

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Product

Fish Ball in Polybag 24/12oz., Item no. 20072, UPC Code 087703200722

Reason for recall

Fish products contain undeclared egg and wheat.

Recalling firm

Wang Globalnet

Firm location

Moonachie, New Jersey, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0489-2018

Quantity

2 cases

Distribution

NY, NJ, PA, MA, ME, VA, MD, DE, CT, RI, and NH

Initiated

15 May 2017

Reported by FDA

20 December 2017

Terminated

23 January 2018

Firm notified by

Letter

Product codes

Expiration date: 03/15/2019

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 5 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 5 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 5. 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 5 of them.
• The recall ran for 8 months, from 15 May 2017 to termination on 23 January 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 distribution pattern names 11 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 7 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.

Named in the distribution pattern: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maine, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire. 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

The allergens named in this record: wheat, eggs, fish.

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 Wang Globalnet

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 6 other records name this firm.

All 7 records for Wang Globalnet

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