Yellowfin Tuna Hilo Cubes, Random cut. 15 lb. cases. (1 x 15 lb. bags per case) Brand…
Tropic Fish Hawaii, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 31 May 2017 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Frozen raw tuna cubes from Indonesia tested positive for hepatitis A.
The record
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- Product
- Yellowfin Tuna Hilo Cubes, Random cut. 15 lb. cases. (1 x 15 lb. bags per case) Brand name: Reel Fresh UPC: 664183001454 Ingredients: Frozen tuna and carbon monoxide (to promote color retention). Product of Indonesia, Wild Caught
- UPC
- 664183001454
- Reason for recall
- Frozen raw tuna cubes from Indonesia tested positive for hepatitis A.
- Recalling firm
- Tropic Fish Hawaii, LLC
- Firm location
- Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-2268-2017
- Quantity
- 150 cases (15 lbs. per case)
- Distribution
- Island of Oahu
- Initiated
- 1 May 2017
- Reported by FDA
- 31 May 2017
- Terminated
- 31 August 2017
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Manufacturing lot code 633671; Los Angeles warehouse lot number 174127. Products were transferred to a storage facility in Hawaii and assigned a new lot code number 5005125. Hilo/Tropic Fish lot number 609149
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 4 months, from 1 May 2017 to termination on 31 August 2017. 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 4 weeks 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.
What this recall was for
Viral and parasitic contamination
Hepatitis A, norovirus and Cyclospora recalls trace back to a person or to water rather than to the process: an infected food handler, or produce irrigated or washed with contaminated water.
A preventive controls plan covers viral or parasitic 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 117.10
- Personnel: the hygiene practices, and the exclusion of anyone with an illness or open lesion that could contaminate food, that a facility must require.
- 21 CFR 112
- Produce safety: the agricultural water, worker health and hygiene standards for farms growing produce eaten raw.
- 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.
Filed under fish and seafood. A product can sit in more than one.
Other fish and seafood recalls for the same reason
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21 CFR 117.10 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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