Pacific Cod, skinless boneless fillet; vacuum packaged in a clear plastic bag.
Kodiak Wild Alaska Seafood recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 25 June 2014 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Firm has been cold smoking, vacuum packaging, and distributing frozen seafood products without the required operating permit and without HACCP controls in place.
The record
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- Product
- Pacific Cod, skinless boneless fillet; vacuum packaged in a clear plastic bag. The wt of the fish is the only labeling included on this product.
- Reason for recall
- Firm has been cold smoking, vacuum packaging, and distributing frozen seafood products without the required operating permit and without HACCP controls in place.
- Recalling firm
- Kodiak Wild Alaska Seafood
- Firm location
- Kodiak, Alaska, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-2041-2014
- Quantity
- 25 lbs
- Distribution
- Product was distributed to customers in Alaska, Virgina, and New Jersey,
- Initiated
- 23 April 2014
- Reported by FDA
- 25 June 2014
- Terminated
- 19 June 2014
- Firm notified by
- Telephone
- Product codes
- Product is not coded.
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. 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 2 of them.
- The recall ran for 8 weeks, from 23 April 2014 to termination on 19 June 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 2 months after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of fish or seafood run a median of 5 months, so this one was shorter 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.
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 Kodiak Wild Alaska Seafood
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-06-25 | Pacific halibut, skin-on boneless fillet; vacuum packaged in a clear plastic bag. The wt of the fish is the only labeling included on the product.. | Kodiak Wild Alaska Seafood | Firm has been cold smoking, vacuum packaging, and distributing frozen seafood products without the required operating permit and without HACCP controls in place. | Class II |
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