Fresh Cooked Pink Shrimp Meat, refrigerated, packaged in 5 pound plastic tubs with a…
Bornstein Seafoods Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 15 May 2019 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product is recalled due to glass fragment contamination
The record
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- Product
- Fresh Cooked Pink Shrimp Meat, refrigerated, packaged in 5 pound plastic tubs with a label sticker on the lid. Master carton is cardboard Bornstein Box. The label is read in parts: "***WILD OREGON FRESH COOKED Shrimp Meat ***KEEP REFRIGERATED*** NET WT 5 lb ***Ingredients: Shrimp meat with salt added ***PACKED BY BORNSTEIN SEAFOODS, INC. ASTORIA, OR ***:
- Reason for recall
- Product is recalled due to glass fragment contamination
- Recalling firm
- Bornstein Seafoods Inc
- Firm location
- Astoria, Oregon, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1329-2019
- Quantity
- 440 lbs.
- Distribution
- distributed in OR only.
- Initiated
- 24 April 2019
- Reported by FDA
- 15 May 2019
- Terminated
- 13 May 2019
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- Lot #12114
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 3 weeks, from 24 April 2019 to termination on 13 May 2019. 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 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.
What this recall was for
Foreign material
A foreign material recall means something that is not food was found in food: metal, plastic, glass, wood or insect matter, usually shed by equipment during processing.
A preventive controls plan covers foreign material 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 117.40
- Equipment and utensils: plant equipment designed and maintained so it cannot contaminate food with lubricants, fuel, metal fragments or contaminated water.
- 21 CFR 117.80(c)
- Manufacturing operations: the measures that protect food from contamination during processing, including the effective ones against metal and other extraneous material.
- 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, meat and poultry and spices and seasonings. 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 Bornstein Seafoods Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
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21 CFR 117.40 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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