Six Indonesian seafood exporters noticed by FDA
Six seafood companies from Indonesia have come under the radar of the Food and Drug Administration for several violations of Seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point and also other US food safety rules. The companies were sent warning letters that are now public and are allowed 15 working days to respond to those.
Most of the problems were discovered during an inspection at Culver city importers' sites and "Frozen Tuna" seems to be one of the products that are not compliant with the American regulations on food safety, reports Food Safety News.
Tritos Sejahtera, Shimasse Prata Citra, Sukses Sejati, Sekar Subur Abadi, Anugerah Lestari Abadi and Nusantara Jaya Abadi are the six companies warned by the FDA for non-compliance with the law.
According to the inspectors, in some cases "firms failed to conduct a hazard analysis to determine whether there are food safety hazards that are reasonably likely to occur and have a HACCP plan that, at a minimum, lists the critical control points; the critical limits are not adequate to control scombrotoxin (histamine) formation that is reasonably likely to occur during transit from the supplier to the processing plant; and corrective action plan does not ensure that no adulterated product with Clostridium botulinum toxin enters commerce".
All of the products were discovered in the storage facilities of Gourmet Fusion Foods, one of the major importers of Indonesian seafood. In one case, inspectors recommended that “in addition to segregating and destroying any label stock that does not contain the proper statement and determining and correcting the cause of improper labels, firms also segregate and relabel any improperly labelled product”. Additional enforcement actions are to be taken if the firm does not promptly correct these violations.
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