Food recall

Tokai Denpun USA Inc recall: Takumi brand frozen tuna ground meat, raw but ready to eat, vacuum packaged units in fiber boxes

Tokai Denpun USA Inc, of Redmond, WA, recalled Takumi brand frozen tuna ground meat, raw but ready to eat, vacuum packaged units in fiber boxes. The FDA's reason: “Histamine, high total plate count, coliforms, and E.coli (serotype is unknown).” The FDA classified it Class II: it could cause temporary or minor harm. The company began the recall voluntarily on October 5, 2021, and the FDA first listed it in its Enforcement Report of November 22, 2023. The FDA has closed the recall: it found the company did all it reasonably could to remove or correct the product.

How serious

Class II

It could cause temporary or minor harm

Why

E. coli

Status

Terminated

Closed November 16, 2023

The recall

Company
Tokai Denpun USA Inc (Redmond, WA)
Reason, in FDA's words
“Histamine, high total plate count, coliforms, and E.coli (serotype is unknown).”
Where it was sold
Distributed in CA, NC, NV, and TX between August 2021 and September 2021.
Recall began
, by the company
FDA classified it
First in an FDA Enforcement Report
FDA event number
93190

The product recalled

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

  • F-0409-2024 Class II

    Takumi brand frozen tuna ground meat, raw but ready to eat, vacuum packaged units in fiber boxes, net wt. 11 lbs. per box. individual units were sold by weight at the point of sale. Product of Fiji, and imported by Tokai Denpun USA INC. Bellevue, WA. Vacuum package label is read in parts: Product of Fiji - Frozen Tuna Ground Meat, Keep Frozen.

    Codes: No codes printed on master cases or on vacuum original packages. The firm assigned their internal warehouse inventory system lot code for ground tuna for the first shipment as W7032594. However, upon return, the cases were assigned a new lot code W7034335 to segregate it away from the rest of the shipment in the warehouse inventory system. The second shipment internal lot code for the ground tuna is W7034472.

    Quantity: 686 cases

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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 November 22, 2023.

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.