Seafood processors came in for their share of “Warning Letters” released Dec. 1st by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The letters, dated from Sept. 23rd to Nov. 19th cover inspections that occurred last spring and summer.
Here is who was on the receiving end:
Vista-CA-based Orval Kent Food Company Inc. was warned about “serious violations of the seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulation.” Its refrigerated ready-to-eat salmon, vacuum-packaged claim chowder were found to e adulterated “in that they may have been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby they may have been rendered injurious to heath.”
Denver-based Okami Inc. was also warned about violating HACCP regulations. “According, your vacuum packaged imitation pasteurized crabmeat is adulterated, in that it has been prepared, packed or held under insanitary conditions whereby they may have been rendered injurious to health.”
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