Tokai Denpun USA Inc Recall: Histamine, high total plate count, coliforms, and E.coli (serotype is unknown).
United States
TerminatedClass II
- Company
- Tokai Denpun USA Inc
- Product
- Takumi brand frozen tuna ground meat, raw but ready to eat,…
- Recall date
- October 5, 2021
- Terminated
- November 16, 2023
- Source
- FDA
Reason for recall
Histamine, high total plate count, coliforms, and E.coli (serotype is unknown).
- - Recall initiated
- - Reported by source
- - Recall terminated
| Product description | UPC | Quantity | Lot / code information |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | Not published in this source record | 686 cases | 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. |
Distribution
- Distributed in CA
- NC
- NV
- and TX between August 2021 and September 2021.
Official source record
- Agency
- FDA
- Dataset
- FDA Food Enforcement (Recalls)
- Recall number
- F-0409-2024
- Event ID
- 93190
- Status
- Terminated
- Classification
- Class II
- Company
- Tokai Denpun USA Inc
- Product description
- 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.
- Quantity
- 686 cases
- Reason
- Histamine, high total plate count, coliforms, and E.coli (serotype is unknown).
- Recall initiation date
- October 5, 2021
- Report date
- November 22, 2023
- Classification date
- Not published in this source record
- Termination date
- November 16, 2023
- Distribution pattern
- Distributed in CA, NC, NV, and TX between August 2021 and September 2021.
- UPC, lot, and code information
- 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.
- Voluntary or mandated
- Voluntary: Firm initiated
- Initial notification method
- Telephone
- Source last updated
- Not tracked separately from the Public Health Trace retrieval date below
- Public Health Trace retrieval date
Responsible company: Tokai Denpun USA Inc
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| State | Distributed |
|---|---|
| California | 1 |
| North Carolina | 1 |
| Nevada | 1 |
| Texas | 1 |
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