Class ITerminated · reported 2015-05-13

OSSIE'S HERRING IN SOURCREAM, NET WT. 8 OZ, UPC 739885114174 --- The product is packaged…

SM Fish Corp recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 13 May 2015 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. The product contains undeclared milk, a sub-ingredient of the sour cream used in the product.

The record

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Product: OSSIE'S HERRING IN SOURCREAM, NET WT. 8 OZ, UPC 739885114174 --- The product is packaged in clear, plastic containers/tubs.
UPC: 739885114174
Reason for recall: The product contains undeclared milk, a sub-ingredient of the sour cream used in the product.
Recalling firm: SM Fish Corp
Firm location: Far Rockaway, New York, United States
Classification: Class I
Status: Terminated
Recall number: F-2144-2015
Quantity: 266 units
Distribution: NY, NJ
Initiated: 21 April 2015
Reported by FDA: 13 May 2015
Terminated: 27 July 2015
Firm notified by: Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes: date code 06/08/15 (represents expiration date and located on the bottom of the tub)

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 3 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 3 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 3. All 3 of them are listed on this page.
The recall ran for 3 months, from 21 April 2015 to termination on 27 July 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 2 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 weeks after the firm began the recall.
The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.

Named in the distribution pattern: New York, 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

Undeclared allergens

An undeclared allergen recall means a food contained one of the major allergens and the label did not say so, either because the wrong label was applied or because an ingredient carried an allergen nobody traced.

A preventive controls plan covers an undeclared allergen 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)(2): Food allergen controls: the written preventive controls that keep an allergen out of a food it does not belong in, and that get the allergens present onto the label.
21 CFR 101.4: Ingredient declaration: every ingredient listed by its common name, in descending order of predominance, on the label of a packaged food.
21 CFR 117 subpart G: Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.

The allergens named in this record: milk.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 3 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 2 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.

The other 2 records of FDA event 71063
Reported	Product	Firm	Reason	Class
2015-05-13	OSSIE'S PICKLED LOX DAIRY, NET WT. 8 OZ, UPC 739885114136 --- The product is packaged in clear, plastic containers/tubs.	SM Fish Corp	The product contains undeclared milk, a sub-ingredient of the sour cream used in the product.	Class I
2015-05-13	OSSIE'S PICKLED LOX & CREAM, NET WT. 8 OZ, UPC 739885114136 --- The product is packaged in clear, plastic containers/tubs.	SM Fish Corp	The product contains undeclared eggs, a sub-ingredient of the mayonnaise used in the product.	Class I

Other records from SM Fish Corp

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 35 other records name this firm.

Reported	Product	Firm	Reason	Class
2016-11-02	OSSIE'S PICKLED LOX & CREAM, NET WT. 8 OZ., UPC 739885104113; -- Far Rockaway, NY 11691 --- The product is packed in a plastic deli tub.	SM Fish Corp.	The products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes based on the findings of the bacteria in the plant via FDA environmental sampling plus the district's inspectional findings	Class I
2016-11-02	OSSIE'S STIGLITZ HERRING, NET WT. 7 OZ., UPC 739885109064; -- Far Rockaway, NY 11691 --- The product is packed in a plastic deli tub.	SM Fish Corp.	The products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes based on the findings of the bacteria in the plant via FDA environmental sampling plus the district's inspectional findings	Class I
2016-11-02	OSSIE'S SHMALTZ HERRING, NET WT. 8 OZ., UPC 739885104182; -- Far Rockaway, NY 11691 --- The product is packed in a plastic deli tub.	SM Fish Corp.	The products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes based on the findings of the bacteria in the plant via FDA environmental sampling plus the district's inspectional findings	Class I
2016-11-02	OSSIE'S EGG WITH SCALLION, NET WT. 7 OZ., UPC 73988570555; -- Far Rockaway, NY 11691 --- The product is packed in a plastic deli tub.	SM Fish Corp.	The products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes based on the findings of the bacteria in the plant via FDA environmental sampling plus the district's inspectional findings	Class I
2016-11-02	OSSIE'S PICKLED LOX, NET WT. 8 OZ., UPC 739885104137; -- Far Rockaway, NY 11691 --- The product is packed in a plastic deli tub.	SM Fish Corp.	The products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes based on the findings of the bacteria in the plant via FDA environmental sampling plus the district's inspectional findings	Class I
2016-11-02	OSSIE'S DUBLIN HERRING, NET WT. 7 OZ., UPC 739885109002; -- Far Rockaway, NY 11691 --- The product is packed in a plastic deli tub.	SM Fish Corp.	The products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes based on the findings of the bacteria in the plant via FDA environmental sampling plus the district's inspectional findings	Class I
2016-11-02	OSSIE'S PICKLED HERRING CLEAR, NET WT. 8 OZ., UPC 739885104205; -- Far Rockaway, NY 11691 --- The product is packed in a plastic deli tub.	SM Fish Corp.	The products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes based on the findings of the bacteria in the plant via FDA environmental sampling plus the district's inspectional findings	Class I
2016-11-02	OSSIE'S WASABI HERRING, NET WT. 7 OZ., UPC 739885109088; -- Far Rockaway, NY 11691 --- The product is packed in a plastic deli tub.	SM Fish Corp.	The products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes based on the findings of the bacteria in the plant via FDA environmental sampling plus the district's inspectional findings	Class I
2016-11-02	OSSIE'S ROMAN SHMALTZ HERRING, NET WT. 7 OZ., UPC 739885109026; -- Far Rockaway, NY 11691 --- The product is packed in a plastic deli tub.	SM Fish Corp.	The products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes based on the findings of the bacteria in the plant via FDA environmental sampling plus the district's inspectional findings	Class I
2016-11-02	OSSIE'S TAAM SHABBOS HERRING, NET WT. 7 OZ., UPC 739885109057; -- Far Rockaway, NY 11691 --- The product is packed in a plastic deli tub.	SM Fish Corp.	The products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes based on the findings of the bacteria in the plant via FDA environmental sampling plus the district's inspectional findings	Class I

All 36 records for SM Fish Corp.

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