Wismettac Asian Foods, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 12 April 2023 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product was found to have the incorrect crustacean named on products
The record
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Product
FURIKAKE SEASONED ROASTED SEAWEED FLAKES SEAFOOD Product number: 38245 Brand name: Shirakiku Distributed by: Wismettac Asian Foods, Inc. 13409 Orden Drive Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
Reason for recall
Product was found to have the incorrect crustacean named on products
AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, GA, HI, ID, MA, NC, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, WA
Initiated
20 March 2023
Reported by FDA
12 April 2023
Terminated
1 June 2023
Firm notified by
E-Mail
Product codes
UPC 074410382452
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
Class III means the FDA judged that the product was unlikely to cause harm but violated FDA labelling or manufacturing regulation. 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 2 months, from 20 March 2023 to termination on 1 June 2023. 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 22 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 weeks after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of fish or seafood run a median of 5 months, so this one was shorter 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.
Filed under fish and seafood. 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.
Product was found to have the incorrect crustacean named on products
Class III
Other fish and seafood recalls
These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. Unlike the firm’s own records below, they come from different companies, which is what makes them a pattern rather than a history.
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Behind every recall is a clause 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.
Recall records come from the openFDA food enforcement API, published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain. Krolda adds the hazard classification and the clause mapping; neither is an FDA determination. Always check the FDA notice before acting on a recall.
