It’s like a game show: This Week in Warning Letters from FDA.
Take your chances, make mistakes, let the U.S. Food and Drug Administration lay out your food failings in public view.
Seafood was a repeat offender, and some others:
• General Tuna Corporation, based in the Philippines, cited for having a HACCP plan that really sucked;
• Chung’s and Son Company of Temple Hills, Maryland, cited for having a HACCP plan that really sucked, your vegetable and shrimp egg roll is adulterated, in that they have been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby they may have been rendered injurious to health;
• Custom Seafood Services Inc. of Seattle, Washington, cited for having a HACCP plan that really sucked, your Dungeness crab sections and King crab legs and claws are adulterated;
• Concept Asia Food Service, another Seattle fish processor with a lousy HACCP plan,
your sushi roll products, including the salmon roll, eel roll, tai roll, imitation crab roll, and tuna roll, are adulterated
• Sugar Bakers, Inc. of Catonsville, Maryland, you have lousy handwashing trash all over the place, and poor storage choices;
• Panaderia El Angel of Arlington, Washington, a Hispanic bakery, you have serious violations of Good Manufacturing Practices, your products are all adulterated;
• K-Brand Farms of Woodridge, New York, you have serious violations of the Prevention of Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) in Shell Eggs During Production, Storage, and Transportation regulation (the shell egg regulation), your shell eggs are adulterated; and,
• Societe Fromagere de Bouvron of Bouvron, France, you produce cheese with substandard equipment.
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