Salted Smoked Split Herring, approximately 12 inches in length; packaged in 18 lb wooden…
P East Trading Corp recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 2 July 2025 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Clostridium botulinum (uneviscerated fish)
The record
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- Product
- Salted Smoked Split Herring, approximately 12 inches in length; packaged in 18 lb wooden box and repacked at retail in deli-style or other retail packaging (for a list of retail locations see associated press release)
- Reason for recall
- Clostridium botulinum (uneviscerated fish)
- Recalling firm
- P East Trading Corp
- Firm location
- Bronx, New York, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- H-0067-2025
- Quantity
- 81 cases
- Distribution
- NY, NJ, CT
- Initiated
- 6 June 2025
- Reported by FDA
- 2 July 2025
- Terminated
- 17 December 2025
- Firm notified by
- Letter
- Product codes
- Lot: 1PRC5073
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 6 months, from 6 June 2025 to termination on 17 December 2025. 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 3 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a prepared meal or sandwich run a median of 6 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Prepared meals concentrate every other category's hazards into one package: they are assembled from many components, handled after any cook step, sold ready to eat, and carry an ingredient list long enough to lose an allergen in.
Named in the distribution pattern: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut. 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
Clostridium botulinum
Clostridium botulinum recalls are recalls of the process, not of a test result: the organism produces its toxin without oxygen, so a low-acid food in a sealed container that missed its scheduled process is recalled whether or not toxin was ever found.
A preventive controls plan covers a botulism risk 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 113
- Thermally processed low-acid foods in hermetically sealed containers: the scheduled process, its establishment by a competent authority, and the records proving every container received it.
- 21 CFR 108.35
- Emergency permit control: the registration and process filing a low-acid canned food processor must hold before it may operate.
Filed under prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.
Other prepared meals and sandwiches 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 P East Trading Corp
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-11-07 | Fruits Du Sud brand Golden Seedless Raisins packed in 30 Lb. boxes with Lot No. FDS T499/18 and Production date of April 2018. Product of South Africa. | P. East Trading Corp. | Product contains undeclared sulfites. | Class I |
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21 CFR 113 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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