Food recall

Seabear Company recall: Hot Smoked Keta Beergarden Salmon, Seabear brand, Reduced Oxygen Packaging

Seabear Company, of Anacortes, WA, recalled Hot Smoked Keta Beergarden Salmon, Seabear brand, Reduced Oxygen Packaging and 1 other product. The FDA's reason: “Products recalled due to water phase salt deviations and mislabeling of storage instructions on finished products labels.” The FDA classified it Class I: it could cause serious harm or death. The company began the recall voluntarily on April 11, 2018, and the FDA first listed it in its Enforcement Report of May 2, 2018. The FDA has closed the recall: it found the company did all it reasonably could to remove or correct the product.

How serious

Class I

It could cause serious harm or death

Why

Labeling, packaging or manufacturing problems

Status

Terminated

Closed September 10, 2018

The recall

Company
Seabear Company (Anacortes, WA)
Reason, in FDA's words
“Products recalled due to water phase salt deviations and mislabeling of storage instructions on finished products labels”
Where it was sold
nationwide
Recall began
, by the company
FDA classified it
First in an FDA Enforcement Report
FDA event number
79807

The 2 products recalled

As the FDA describes them, with the codes that tell whether a package is part of the recall.

  • F-1126-2018 Class I

    Hot Smoked Keta Beergarden Salmon, Seabear brand, Reduced Oxygen Packaging, Net Wt. 4oz (113g). No UPC.

    Codes: Lot #17338/17340. Code is interepreted as follows: Julian Date Code. Lot: 17 =Year 2017 338 = Day (December 4th) Pack Date is 17340, which is also in Julian Date coding.

    Quantity: 381/4 oz. units

  • F-1127-2018 Class I

    Cold Smoked Wild Coho Salmon Lox , Gerard & Dominique Seafoods brand, Reduced Oxygen Packaging, Net Wt. 3 oz (85g). UPC 7 52047 92635 4. The package label of the Cold Smoked Coho Salmon bears this instructions "***KEEP REFRIGERATED AT OR BELOW 38 F***". The master case label of the Cold Smoked Coho Salmon bears this instructions: "***Important, keep frozen until used, thaw under refrigeration at 38 F or below. Use By 30 days After Thaw***".

    Codes: Lot # CSCO-17339/Pack Date 17340. Code is interpreted as follows: CS=Cold Smoked CO=Coho. Julian Date Code-Lot: 17=Year 2017, 339=Day (December 5th) Pack Date is 17340, which is also in Julian Date coding

    Quantity: 2080/3 oz. units total

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Source and notes

U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Enforcement Reports (openFDA food recall data) (Public domain (U.S. government work); source U.S. Food and Drug Administration, openFDA), data as of May 2, 2018.

Each week the FDA lists the recalls it has classified in its Enforcement Report, often weeks after the company announced the recall, so a month with five weekly reports tends to count more. Each recall counts once, however many products it covers, in the month FDA first listed it. Class I means the food could cause serious harm or death, Class II temporary or minor harm, and Class III is unlikely to harm anyone. Meat, poultry and most egg products are recalled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, not the FDA, and aren't included. For what to do with a recalled product, see the FDA's recalls page.