Short Strips Teriyaki is a low salt, vacuum packaged, Hot Smoked Salmon, and it is sold…
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 Alaska King Seafoods Short Strips Teriyaki because it is not labeled "KEEP FROZEN" and the product has the potential to be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum.
The record
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Product
Short Strips Teriyaki is a low salt, vacuum packaged, Hot Smoked Salmon, and it is sold under Alaska King Seafoods brand. The labels contain the following statement above or below the product name and/or ingredient statement: "***IMPORTANT KEEP FROZEN***THAW UNDER REFRIGERATION (BELOW 38 F) IMMEDIATELY BEFORE USE***DIST OR DISTRIBUTED BY: ALASKA KING SEAFOODS, PO BOX 1826 TACOMA, WA 98401***" "***Short Strips Teriyaki***INGREDIENTS: SALMON, MOLASSES, SOY SAUCE (WATER, WHEAT, SOYBEANS, SALT, SODIUM BENZOATE), RUM, GARLIC, ONION, GINGER, BROWN SUGAR, SPICES, ORGANIC DEXTROSE, NATURAL FLAVORS, NATURAL WOOD SMOKE (CONTAINS SOY)***".
Reason for recall
Jensen's Old Fashioned Smokehouse, Inc. is recalling Alaska King Seafoods Short Strips Teriyaki because it is not labeled "KEEP FROZEN" and the product has the potential to be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum.
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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. 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 15 of them.
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 fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Fresh produce is the category where contamination arrives before the facility does: irrigation water, soil amendments and field workers are the routes, and nothing downstream of the farm is a kill step for a product eaten raw.
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.
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.
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Jensen's Old Fashioned Smokehouse, Inc. is recalling ALL low salt, vacuum packaged, smoked salmon/seafood products that are not labeled "KEEP FROZEN". The recall does NOT include Salmon Candy or any products bearing the Jensen's Smokehouse brand.
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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.
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.
