The Recall Desk
Agency classClass IIOur severity:HighFDA (Food)·F-2749-2017·Announced 2017-08-23

High Liner Foods Recalls Raw Breaded Flounder Fillets for Undeclared Milk

High Liner Foods is recalling raw breaded flounder fillets because they may contain undeclared milk, posing a risk to individuals with milk allergies.

The agency’s classification

FDA (Food): Class II

Class II is a situation in which use of or exposure to a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences, or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.

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 3/5 (High).

Real risk of harm even if no illness or injury has been reported yet. Stop using the product and follow the agency's guidance.

Our severity reasoning: The recall involves allergen mislabeling on a common allergen (milk), which corresponds to a severity score of 3 (High) according to the rubric.

Plain-English summary

High Liner Foods Inc. is recalling HFS 1/10lb Raw Breaded Natural Flounder Fillets (Item Number: 1049318) because the product may contain undeclared milk. The recall involves 693,408 cases distributed nationwide.

The presence of undeclared milk is a labeling error that poses a health risk to consumers with milk allergies. The FDA has classified this recall as Class II, indicating that there is a reasonable probability that the use of, or exposure to, the violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences.

Consumers with milk allergies should not consume the recalled product. Individuals who have purchased the product should check their lot numbers against the list provided by the FDA or the manufacturer and dispose of the product or return it to the place of purchase.

The recalled product

Product
HFS 1/10lb Raw Breaded Natural Flounder Fillets 4 oz avg., Item Number: 1049318
Affected units
693,408

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 (20)

  • Lot Number: 0047114111
  • 0047107110
  • 0047108110
  • 0047030110
  • 0047044210
  • 0047003111
  • 0047002111
  • 0047003210
  • 0047002210
  • 0047030111
  • 0047030211
  • 0047114210
  • 0047002211
  • 0047003211
  • 0047114110
  • 0047135211
  • 0047044110
  • 0047002110
  • 0047003110
  • 0047030210

Distribution

Distributed nationwide across the United States.

Part of a larger recall action

This product is one of 186 recalled by High Liner Foods Inc. 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.

See all 186 products in this recall →

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