Ocean Beauty Recalls Cold-Smoked Salmon for Listeria Contamination
Ocean Beauty Seafoods is recalling 3-ounce packages of Nathan's Nova Salmon because a sample tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes.
The agency’s classification
FDA (Food): Class I
Class I is a situation in which there is a reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.
This is the agency’s own classification, taken from its notice. The severity score below is our assessment, not the agency’s. How recall classes work
What this means for you
Our assessment, not the agency’s: severity 5/5 (Critical).
Highest-severity recall. The hazard can cause serious injury or death. Stop using the product now and follow the agency's instructions.
Our severity reasoning: The source text identifies the agency classification as Class I, which mandates a minimum score of 4, and the presence of Listeria monocytogenes in a ready-to-eat food product is a critical health hazard.
Plain-English summary
Ocean Beauty Seafoods, LLC is recalling 272 cases of 3-ounce packages of Nathan's Traditional Delicatessen Nova Salmon. The product is cold-smoked salmon packaged in vacuum plastic bags that are partially clear and partially colored black, white, gold, and pink. The recall was initiated after a sample of the product was found positive for Listeria monocytogenes.
The affected product was produced on October 11, 2012, and carries the Julian Date 285. It was distributed nationwide to distributors and retailers in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, and Washington.
Consumers who have purchased this product should check their refrigerators for the specific packaging and date codes listed above. They should discard the product or return it to the place of purchase.
The recalled product
- Product
- Cold-smoked salmon in vacuum plastic bags that are partially clear and partially colored black, white, gold and pink. Nathan's, 3oz Nova Salmon, has the UPC 0 73030 80368 2. The front panel is labeled in part: "***NATHAN'S TRADITIONAL DELICATESSEN NOVA SALMON CLASSIC…
- Manufacturer
- Ocean Beauty Seafoods, LLC
- Category
- Food — Deli / Ready-to-Eat
- Hazard
Is your product affected?
Check your packaging against the codes below. If any of them match, the product is part of this recall.
Lot numbers (3)
- Produced on October 11
- 2012
- Julian Date 285.
Distribution
Part of a larger recall action
This product is one of 2 recalled by Ocean Beauty Seafoods, LLC under a single FDA (Food) recall action. The agency files each product separately, so the size of the action is not visible from this page alone.
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