Low salt, vacuum packaged, Hot Smoked Salmon (may include any of the following varieties…
Jensens Old Fashioned Smokehouse Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 22 January 2014 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Jensen's Old Fashioned Smokehouse, Inc. is recalling Lusamerica, Jensen's and ALCHEMIST SEAFOODs Hot Smoked Salmon products may not labeled "KEEP FROZEN" and products are potentially contaminated with Clostridium botulinum.
The record
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- Product
- Low salt, vacuum packaged, Hot Smoked Salmon (may include any of the following varieties Coho, Keta, King, Sockeye). Jensen's product is labeled in part "*** JENSEN'S SEATTLE STYLE SMOKED WILD PACIFIC SALMON JENESN'S SMOKEHOUSE, INC. *** Keep Refrigerated Below 38 F*** INGREDIENTS: WILD PACIFIC KING SALMON, SALT, BROWN SUGAR, HARDWOOD SMOKE ***" Lusamerica Keta or Sockey product is shipped with the "Keep Frozen" sticker on individual units. No label was provided. ALCHEMIST SEAFOOD King or Coho product is labeled parts: "***Get Wild ALCHEMIST SEAFOODS***wwww.AlchemistSeafoods.com Wild Alaskan Salmon***INGREDIENTS (smoked product): Wild Alaskan Salmon, Salt, Brown Sugar, Natural Wood Smoke***Thaw Under Refrigeration Just Prior to Consumption***Product of Alaska, U.S.A.***.
- Reason for recall
- Jensen's Old Fashioned Smokehouse, Inc. is recalling Lusamerica, Jensen's and ALCHEMIST SEAFOODs Hot Smoked Salmon products may not labeled "KEEP FROZEN" and products are potentially contaminated with Clostridium botulinum.
- Recalling firm
- Jensens Old Fashioned Smokehouse Inc
- Firm location
- Seattle, Washington, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1391-2014
- Quantity
- 14,628 lbs
- Distribution
- Distributed in Washington
- Initiated
- 29 April 2013
- Reported by FDA
- 22 January 2014
- Terminated
- 12 December 2017
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- lot numbers with the first four numbers starting with 1104 through 3104.
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 15 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 15 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 15. All 15 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 4.6 years, from 29 April 2013 to termination on 12 December 2017. 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 9 months 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.
What this recall was for
Clostridium botulinum
Clostridium botulinum recalls are recalls of the process, not of a test result: the organism produces its toxin without oxygen, so a low-acid food in a sealed container that missed its scheduled process is recalled whether or not toxin was ever found.
A preventive controls plan covers a botulism risk 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 113
- Thermally processed low-acid foods in hermetically sealed containers: the scheduled process, its establishment by a competent authority, and the records proving every container received it.
- 21 CFR 108.35
- Emergency permit control: the registration and process filing a low-acid canned food processor must hold before it may operate.
Filed under fish and seafood and spices and seasonings. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 15 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 14 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.
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 Jensens Old Fashioned Smokehouse Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 15 other records name this firm.
All 16 records for Jensens Old Fashioned Smokehouse Inc
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21 CFR 113 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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