Beechwood Smoked and Atlantic Salmon sliced sides, whole sides, and trimmings under the…
The Santa Barbara Smokehouse, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 15 April 2015 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. The firm is recalling batches of smoked salmon due to environmental and finished product samples found positive for Listeria monocytogenes.
The record
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- Product
- Beechwood Smoked and Atlantic Salmon sliced sides, whole sides, and trimmings under the following brands; Coastal Harbor SKU: 8 30859 01183 0, Channel Island SKU: 8 30859 03093 0, Atlantic Smoked SKU: 8 30859 01253 0, Harbor Point SKU: 8 30859 01515 9, Local Abundance SKU: 8 30859 03075 5, Fresh & Easy 4oz. , Local Abundance SKU: 8 30859 03070 1, Fresh & Easy 4oz., Local Abundance SKU: 8 30859 03069 5, Channel Island SKU: 8 30859 03093 0 All products are vacuum packed and are either fresh or frozen. Products are cold smoked.
- Reason for recall
- The firm is recalling batches of smoked salmon due to environmental and finished product samples found positive for Listeria monocytogenes.
- Recalling firm
- The Santa Barbara Smokehouse, Inc.
- Firm location
- Santa Barbara, California, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1894-2015
- Quantity
- 29,343 lbs.
- Distribution
- Products are sold to customers located within the U.S.; CA, NY, TX, HI, CO, MA, AZ, CT, KY, IL, NV, UT, MD, FL, MI, MO, NJ
- Initiated
- 26 December 2014
- Reported by FDA
- 15 April 2015
- Terminated
- 15 December 2015
- Firm notified by
- FAX
- Product codes
- Batches: 4261, 5264, 5609, 5699, 5731, 5761, 5792, 5924, 5934, 5969, 5979, 6012, 6029, 6042, 6054, 6061, 6072, 6082, 6194, 6204, 6214, 6285, 6304, 6314, 6322, 6339, 6344, 6351, 6362, 6379, 6434, 6449, 6452, 6461, 6479, 6481, 6492, 6572, 6584, 6594, 6604, 6612, 6664, 6674, 6684
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class I means the FDA judged a reasonable probability that the product would cause serious health consequences or death. 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 12 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 12 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 12. All 12 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 12 months, from 26 December 2014 to termination on 15 December 2015. 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 17 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: California, New York, Texas, Hawaii, Colorado, Massachusetts, Arizona, Connecticut, Kentucky, Illinois, Nevada, Utah, Maryland, Florida, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
What this recall was for
Listeria monocytogenes
Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium that grows at refrigeration temperature, which is why it dominates recalls of ready-to-eat foods that are never cooked again before they are eaten.
A preventive controls plan covers Listeria contamination 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 117.135(c)(3)
- Sanitation controls: the controls on cleaning food-contact surfaces and on preventing cross-contact and cross-contamination from insanitary objects, people and equipment.
- 21 CFR 117.165(a)(3)
- Environmental monitoring: testing the processing environment for an environmental pathogen, required when a ready-to-eat food is exposed to the environment before packaging.
- 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 and prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 12 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 11 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 The Santa Barbara Smokehouse, Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 26 other records name this firm.
All 27 records for The Santa Barbara Smokehouse, Inc.
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21 CFR 117.135(c)(3) 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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