Belevini BICHKI, Dried Salted Whole Smelts, Net. Weight, 5.29 oz (150 g) VACUUM PACK,20…

MAMTAKIM, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 24 December 2025 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Clostridium botulinum (uneviscerated fish)

The record

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Product

Belevini BICHKI, Dried Salted Whole Smelts, Net. Weight, 5.29 oz (150 g) VACUUM PACK,20 PACKAGES PER CASE, FROZEN, REFRIGERATE AFTER OPENING

Reason for recall

Clostridium botulinum (uneviscerated fish)

Recalling firm

MAMTAKIM, Inc.

Firm location

Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

H-0312-2026

Quantity

4 Cases

Distribution

The adulterated product was distributed to the following states: NY, TX, PA, NJ, FL.

Initiated

27 October 2025

Reported by FDA

24 December 2025

Terminated

25 March 2026

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

PRODUCT NUMBER: LL0321, BAR CODE: 0754684899008

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 2 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 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. 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 2 of them.
• The recall ran for 5 months, from 27 October 2025 to termination on 25 March 2026. 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 4 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 8 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: Texas, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Florida. 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

Other records from MAMTAKIM, Inc.

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