Hain-Celestial Earths Best 6/1LB Fish Nuggets Value Added Breaded Minced Alaska…

High Liner Foods Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 23 August 2017 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product may contain undeclared milk.

The record

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Product

Hain-Celestial Earths Best 6/1LB Fish Nuggets Value Added Breaded Minced Alaska Pollock., Item Number: 1005181

Reason for recall

Product may contain undeclared milk.

Recalling firm

High Liner Foods Inc.

Firm location

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-2745-2017

Quantity

693,408 cases (total for all products)

Distribution

Nationwide

Initiated

9 June 2017

Reported by FDA

23 August 2017

Terminated

14 December 2017

Firm notified by

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Product codes

Lot Number: 0087083150; 0087096150

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 186 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 186 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 186. All 186 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 6 months, from 9 June 2017 to termination on 14 December 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 2 months after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of fish or seafood run a median of 5 months, so this one was about typical 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

The allergens named in this record: milk.

Filed under fish and seafood. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 186 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 185 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 High Liner Foods Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 190 other records name this firm.

All 191 records for High Liner Foods Inc.

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