Genova branded Yellowfin Tuna; Genova; In Olive Oil; Wild Caught; NET WT.
Chicken of the Sea; Thai Union recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 19 March 2025 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product's easy-pull lid was not secured properly and may cause the product to become adulterated with the hazard clostridium botulinum.
The record
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- Product
- Genova branded Yellowfin Tuna; Genova; In Olive Oil; Wild Caught; NET WT. 5 OZ (142g) RD WT. 4 OZ (113g); Distributed by Tri-Union Seafoods, LLC.; El Sugundo, CA 90245 U.S.A. UPC# 48000 73265 UPC# 48000 13265 UPC# 48000 63267 Product is packaged in several different configurations. shrink wrapped 4- 5 ounce can pack. flat of 24- 5 ounce individual cans. Shrink wrapped 6- 7 ounce can pack.
- UPC
- 4800073265
- Reason for recall
- Product's easy-pull lid was not secured properly and may cause the product to become adulterated with the hazard clostridium botulinum.
- Recalling firm
- Chicken of the Sea; Thai Union
- Firm location
- El Segundo, California, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Ongoing
- Recall number
- F-0611-2025
- Quantity
- 14,147 cases total
- Distribution
- Product was distributed nationwide.
- Initiated
- 4 February 2025
- Reported by FDA
- 19 March 2025
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- Best By dates: 12/13/2027; 1/13/2028; 01/17/2028; 01/21/2028; 01/23/2028; 01/24/2028; 01/27/2028 Lots: S84N D1N; S84N D2M; S84N 41M; S84N 42M; S84N 42N; S84N 43N; S84N D1L; S84N D3L; S84N D1D; S84N D3D; S84N D2D
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 is one of 10 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 10 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 10. 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 10 of them.
- This recall has no termination date on the record, so as published it had not been terminated under 21 CFR 7.55.
- The FDA published the enforcement report 6 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- 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
Unapproved ingredients
An unapproved ingredient recall means a product contained a substance not permitted in food, most often an undisclosed pharmaceutical active found in a dietary supplement.
A preventive controls plan covers an unapproved ingredient 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 111
- Dietary supplement CGMP: the identity, purity, strength and composition specifications a supplement manufacturer sets and verifies for every component and finished batch.
- 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.
Clostridium botulinum
Clostridium botulinum recalls are recalls of the process, not of a test result: the organism produces its toxin without oxygen, so a low-acid food in a sealed container that missed its scheduled process is recalled whether or not toxin was ever found.
A preventive controls plan covers a botulism risk 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 113
- Thermally processed low-acid foods in hermetically sealed containers: the scheduled process, its establishment by a competent authority, and the records proving every container received it.
- 21 CFR 108.35
- Emergency permit control: the registration and process filing a low-acid canned food processor must hold before it may operate.
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 Chicken of the Sea; Thai Union
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 10 other records name this firm.
All 11 records for Chicken of the Sea; Thai Union
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21 CFR 111 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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