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Food product

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.

F-0409-2024

October 05, 2021

Class II

Product summary

Firm
Tokai Denpun USA Inc
Event
Event 93190
Status
Terminated
Classification
Class II
Quantity
686 cases
Official record key
food-enforcement:F-0409-2024

Official wording

Reason: Histamine, high total plate count, coliforms, and E.coli (serotype is unknown).

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.

Distribution pattern: Distributed in CA, NC, NV, and TX between August 2021 and September 2021.

Derived failure modes

  • Unknown

    reason.no_named_rule · v1.0.0

    Histamine, high total plate count, coliforms, and E.coli (serotype is unknown).