HI-TECH PHARMACEUTICALS FISH OIL HEART AND BRAIN HEALTH EPA/DHA OMEGA 3 FATTY ACIDS…
Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 24 September 2025 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Unapproved Drug Claims.
The record
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Product
HI-TECH PHARMACEUTICALS FISH OIL HEART AND BRAIN HEALTH EPA/DHA OMEGA 3 FATTY ACIDS SUPPORTS CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH MAY HELP WITH JOINT PAIN MAY IMPROVE COGNITIVE FUNCTION 90 SOFT GELS UPC 8 11836 02585 9 HI-TECH PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. 6015-B Unity Drive Norcross, GA 30071
Product was shipped to the following states: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, GU, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, PR, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV & WY.
Initiated
6 August 2025
Reported by FDA
24 September 2025
Terminated
19 February 2026
Firm notified by
Letter
Product codes
Lot 517120551 Exp Date 04/30
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
Class III means the FDA judged that the product was unlikely to cause harm but violated FDA labelling or manufacturing regulation. 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 16 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 16 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 16. 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 16 of them.
The recall ran for 6 months, from 6 August 2025 to termination on 19 February 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 47 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 7 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.
An unapproved ingredient recall means a product contained a substance not permitted in food, most often an undisclosed pharmaceutical active found in a dietary supplement.
A preventive controls plan covers an unapproved ingredient 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 111
Dietary supplement CGMP: the identity, purity, strength and composition specifications a supplement manufacturer sets and verifies for every component and finished batch.
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
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.
21 CFR 111 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.
Recall records come from the openFDA food enforcement API, published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain. Krolda adds the hazard classification and the clause mapping; neither is an FDA determination. Always check the FDA notice before acting on a recall.
