FDA Advises Not to Eat, Sell, or Serve Cold Smoked Sprats Sold by Haifa…

Official notice: FDA Advises Not to Eat, Sell, or Serve Cold Smoked Sprats Sold by Haifa Smoked Fish, Inc.

Product described by the notice

All lots of cold smoked sprats sold by D&M Smoked Fish doing-business-as (DBA) Haifa Smoked Fish, Inc.

Why this notice matters

due to potential Clostridium botulinum contamination.

What to do

Do not eat, sell, or serve any cold smoked sprats sold by Haifa Smoked Fish, Inc. Consumers who are unsure whether they have purchased cold smoked sprats from Haifa Smoked Fish, Inc. should throw them away or contact their place of purchase. Consumers, retailers, wholesalers, and foodservice customers who purchased or received cold smoked sprats from Haifa Smoked Fish, Inc. should carefully clean and sanitize any surfaces or containers that they touched. Retailers, restaurants, wholesalers, and food service customers should not sell or serve cold smoked sprats sold by Haifa Smoked Fish, Inc.

Package check needs review

Possible matches only. The official notice and retailer/supplier tracing must determine whether your package is affected. A missing or different code does not establish that food is safe.

• Possible matches only. The official notice and retailer/supplier tracing must determine whether your package is affected. A missing or different code does not establish that food is safe.
• Product identity is shown at notice level; no UPC, lot, date or supplier code has been approved as a package criterion.
• Distribution, illness counts, death counts and classification are not inferred. Read the linked notice.