Oceans Catch All Natural Fresh Jonah Crab Leg Meat, Packaged in round plastic containers…
Rome Packing Co., Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 17 December 2014 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product may be be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
The record
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- Product
- Oceans Catch All Natural Fresh Jonah Crab Leg Meat, Packaged in round plastic containers (tub with snap-on lid), sold as refrigerated: 5 ounce, 8 ounce, and 16 ounce
- Reason for recall
- Product may be be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
- Recalling firm
- Rome Packing Co., Inc.
- Firm location
- E Providence, Rhode Island, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0614-2015
- Quantity
- 1,124.5 pounds
- Distribution
- Distributed in the US in the following states: CA, FL, IL, MA, ME, NY, PA, RI
- Initiated
- 24 October 2014
- Reported by FDA
- 17 December 2014
- Terminated
- 5 November 2015
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- 5 ounce: lot number 0104804, with a sell by date before 10/15/14; 8 ounce: lot number 0104665, with a sell by date before 10/13/14; lot number 0104665, with a sell by date before 10/14/14; lot number 0104804, with a sell by date before 10/14/14; lot number 0104842, with a sell by date before 10/16/14; 16 ounce: lot number 0104659, with a sell by date before 10/13/14; lot number 0104665, with a sell by date before 10/14/14; lot number 0104842, with a sell by date before 10/16/14
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 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. All 2 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 12 months, from 24 October 2014 to termination on 5 November 2015. 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 7 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 8 weeks 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: Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maine, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island. 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
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 fish and seafood and meat and poultry. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 2 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 1 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-12-17 | Oceans Catch All Natural Jonah Crab Combo Meat, Packaged in round plastic containers (tub with snap-on lid), sold refrigerated: 6 ounce, 8 ounce, and 16 ounce | Rome Packing Co., Inc. | Product may be be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
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 Rome Packing Co., Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-12-17 | Oceans Catch All Natural Jonah Crab Combo Meat, Packaged in round plastic containers (tub with snap-on lid), sold refrigerated: 6 ounce, 8 ounce, and 16 ounce | Rome Packing Co., Inc. | Product may be be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2014-07-09 | Ocean's Catch RTE All Natural Jonah Crab Combo Meat Fresh Hand Picked Crabmeat , Net WT. 8 oz. and 16 oz. plastic container Ingredients; Contains Jonah Rock Crab Meat, Salt | Rome Packing Co., Inc. | Product contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes | Class I |
| 2014-07-09 | Ocean's Catch Jonah Crab Minced Meat Crabmeat , Net WT. 10 lb. plastic bag | Rome Packing Co., Inc. | Product contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes | Class I |
| 2014-07-09 | Ocean's Catch RTE Fresh Hand Picked Crabmeat , Net WT. 6 oz. plastic container Ingredients; Contains Jonah Crab Meat | Rome Packing Co., Inc. | Product contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes | Class I |
All 5 records for Rome Packing Co., Inc.
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