Pacific Black Cod, NW Wild Products, 6.5 oz. metal cans. No UPC

Northwest Wild Products recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 31 August 2016 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. All canned black cod, salmon, sardines, steelhead, sturgeon, tuna, and Razor clams with any codes starting with OC because it has the potential to be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum.

The record

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Product

Pacific Black Cod, NW Wild Products, 6.5 oz. metal cans. No UPC

Reason for recall

All canned black cod, salmon, sardines, steelhead, sturgeon, tuna, and Razor clams with any codes starting with OC because it has the potential to be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum.

Recalling firm

Northwest Wild Products

Firm location

Astoria, Oregon, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1951-2016

Quantity

cannot be determined

Distribution

distributed in Oregon and sold to consumers through mail orders. The firm did not keep records regarding who the product was sold to.

Initiated

19 October 2015

Reported by FDA

31 August 2016

Terminated

19 August 2016

Firm notified by

Press Release

Product codes

any codes starting with OC and it can be found on top or bottom of a can. Last date of distribution was September 2015.

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 16 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 16 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 16. 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 16 of them.
• The recall ran for 10 months, from 19 October 2015 to termination on 19 August 2016. 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 10 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

Filed under fish and seafood. 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 Northwest Wild Products

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 Northwest Wild Products

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