New England Clam Chowda Base, pouch 4 lbs., refrigerated. For Institutional Use Only.
Plenus Group Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 1 August 2012 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product under processed
The record
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- Product
- New England Clam Chowda Base, pouch 4 lbs., refrigerated. For Institutional Use Only. Mfd. by Plenus Group, Inc., Lowell, MA 01852 Product Number 1010 UPC #: 7 3051691010 3
- UPC
- 730516910103
- Reason for recall
- Product under processed
- Recalling firm
- Plenus Group Inc.
- Firm location
- Lowell, Massachusetts, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1798-2012
- Quantity
- 13 cases (4 x 4lb)
- Distribution
- Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine and Rhode Island
- Initiated
- 25 June 2012
- Reported by FDA
- 1 August 2012
- Terminated
- 13 March 2014
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- MFG DATE: June 11, 2012, Use BY: 07/26/2012
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 2 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 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. All 2 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 21 months, from 25 June 2012 to termination on 13 March 2014. 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 5 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.
Filed under fish and seafood. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 2 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 1 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.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-08-01 | New England Clam Chowda, pouch 8 lbs., refrigerated. For Institutional Use Only. Mfd. by Plenus Group, Inc., Lowell, MA 01852 Product Number 1023 UPC #: 7 3051691023 3 | Plenus Group Inc. | Product under processed | Class II |
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 Plenus Group Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-26 | Rockport Lobser Bisque; packed in 2x8lb pouches and in 4x4b pouches | Plenus Group Inc. | Products contain undeclared shrimp (crustacean shellfish) | Class I |
| 2012-08-01 | New England Clam Chowda, pouch 8 lbs., refrigerated. For Institutional Use Only. Mfd. by Plenus Group, Inc., Lowell, MA 01852 Product Number 1023 UPC #: 7 3051691023 3 | Plenus Group Inc. | Product under processed | Class II |
All 3 records for Plenus Group Inc.
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