Banquet Cut European Style Cold Smoked Salmon, Item Number 2-92845, brand Gerard and…
Seabear Company recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 29 September 2021 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Potential for growth of C. botulinum
The record
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- Product
- Banquet Cut European Style Cold Smoked Salmon, Item Number 2-92845, brand Gerard and Dominique Seafoods, packaged in pouch, net wt. per pouch is random, frozen, UPC of pouch: 2 92845 00250 3. The storage/thawing instructions on the pouch is read in parts: "***KEEP FROZEN UNTIL USED. THAW UNDER REFRIGERATION AT OR BELOW 38F. USE BY 30 DAYS AFTER THAW***". The master case has the UPC 7 52047 92845 7 and net wt. 16 lbs. The master case label is read in parts: LOX EURO SLICED BANQUET 6/CS ***2-92845 *** Ingredients: Smoked Salmon (Atlantic Salmon, salt, cane sugar, spices, natural wood smoke)***Contains: Astaxanthin or Canthaxanthin. Contains: Salmon***Important, keep frozen until used, thaw under refrigeration at 38F or below*** Use By 30 Days After Thaw ***".
- UPC
- 752047928457
- Reason for recall
- Potential for growth of C. botulinum
- Recalling firm
- Seabear Company
- Firm location
- Anacortes, Washington, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1009-2021
- Quantity
- total 126 cases (756 pouches)
- Distribution
- distributed in AZ, CA, and GA.
- Initiated
- 8 September 2021
- Reported by FDA
- 29 September 2021
- Terminated
- 12 November 2021
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- -Production Code: CSATB-21235 -Pack Date: 21-237 and 21-238 -Frozen Best By Dates: 08/25/23 and 08/26/23 Production Code represents CS (Cold Smoked) AT(Atlantic) B (Banquet) 21 (year) 235 (Julian date). The 21235 is the date that the fish was first handled in production- in the fillet room. Pack Date was the day the fish was placed inside the pouch.
Reading this record
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- 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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 2 months, from 8 September 2021 to termination on 12 November 2021. 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 2 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: California, Georgia. 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 and spices and seasonings. A product can sit in more than one.
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Other records from Seabear Company
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