- Santa Barbara Royal Smoked Salmon 4oz. D-Cut Products are packaged in Reduced Oxygen…
The Santa Barbara Smokehouse, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 1 July 2015 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. The Santa Barbara Smokehouse, Inc. is recalling fresh and frozen cold smoked salmon due to potential Listeria Monocytogenes contamination.
The record
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- Product
- - Santa Barbara Royal Smoked Salmon 4oz. D-Cut Products are packaged in Reduced Oxygen Package (ROP). Product is priced per pound.
- Reason for recall
- The Santa Barbara Smokehouse, Inc. is recalling fresh and frozen cold smoked salmon due to potential Listeria Monocytogenes contamination.
- Recalling firm
- The Santa Barbara Smokehouse, Inc.
- Firm location
- Santa Barbara, California, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-2780-2015
- Quantity
- about 250,000 lbs. (including all lots)
- Distribution
- U.S. distribution to the following: CA, HI, IL, FL, GA, CO, NV, TX, NY, OH, MI, LA, AZ, CT, NE, NJ, MO, MN, NC, MD, and KY No foreign distribution.
- Initiated
- 4 June 2015
- Reported by FDA
- 1 July 2015
- Terminated
- 15 December 2015
- Firm notified by
- Telephone
- Product codes
- Batches 1144-3949 Use By Dates: April 29th to May 6th, 2015 SKU: 8 30859 03341 2
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 9 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 9 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 9. 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 9 of them.
- The recall ran for 6 months, from 4 June 2015 to termination on 15 December 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 19 states, and 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 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: Hawaii, Illinois, Florida, Georgia, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Louisiana, Arizona, Connecticut, Nebraska, New Jersey, Missouri, Minnesota, North Carolina, Maryland. 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
Listeria monocytogenes
Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium that grows at refrigeration temperature, which is why it dominates recalls of ready-to-eat foods that are never cooked again before they are eaten.
A preventive controls plan covers Listeria 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 117.135(c)(3)
- Sanitation controls: the controls on cleaning food-contact surfaces and on preventing cross-contact and cross-contamination from insanitary objects, people and equipment.
- 21 CFR 117.165(a)(3)
- Environmental monitoring: testing the processing environment for an environmental pathogen, required when a ready-to-eat food is exposed to the environment before packaging.
- 21 CFR 117.150
- Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.
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 The Santa Barbara Smokehouse, Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 26 other records name this firm.
All 27 records for The Santa Barbara Smokehouse, Inc.
All 2015 recalls · All FDA food recall data
21 CFR 117.135(c)(3) 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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