Heihujiaoyupai, USA jiazhoufengwei, Fish, NET WT 4.2oz (120g)

Midwest International Corp recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 28 December 2016 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. The product is a low acid canned food (LACF) without a registered manufacturer and scheduled process.

The record

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Product

Heihujiaoyupai, USA jiazhoufengwei, Fish, NET WT 4.2oz (120g)

Reason for recall

The product is a low acid canned food (LACF) without a registered manufacturer and scheduled process.

Recalling firm

Midwest International Corp

Firm location

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0745-2017

Quantity

50 cartons/20 units

Distribution

CA, IL, NY, MD, MA, KY, TX and VA

Initiated

7 December 2016

Reported by FDA

28 December 2016

Terminated

20 June 2018

Firm notified by

FAX

Product codes

2016/06/23 Item # D567

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 3 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 3 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 3. 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 3 of them.
• The recall ran for 18 months, from 7 December 2016 to termination on 20 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 distribution pattern names 8 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 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: California, Illinois, New York, Maryland, Massachusetts, Kentucky, Texas, Virginia. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

Filed under fish and seafood. A product can sit in more than one.

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.

Other records from Midwest International Corp

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 Midwest International Corp

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