Class ITerminated · reported 2026-05-27

MA Cohen's Kippered Herring vacuum packed, weight provided at retail, UPC 7232577992

Shining Sea Fish Co. LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 27 May 2026 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Clostridium botulinum is an uncontrolled hazard

The record

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Product: MA Cohen's Kippered Herring vacuum packed, weight provided at retail, UPC 7232577992
UPC: 7232577992
Reason for recall: Clostridium botulinum is an uncontrolled hazard
Recalling firm: Shining Sea Fish Co. LLC
Firm location: Detroit, Michigan, United States
Classification: Class I
Status: Terminated
Recall number: H-0810-2026
Quantity: 675 pounds
Distribution: MI
Initiated: 28 April 2026
Reported by FDA: 27 May 2026
Terminated: 17 June 2026
Firm notified by: Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes: LOT 25079 Expiration May 03 2026, LOT 25055 Expiration May 12 2026, LOT 25028 Expiration June 03 2026, LOT 26344 Expiration July 22 2026

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 7 weeks, from 28 April 2026 to termination on 17 June 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 1 state, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 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.

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.

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