Class IIPossible risk
Takumi: Frozen ground tuna
Histamine, high total plate count, coliforms, and E.coli (serotype is unknown).
The recalled product
Takumi brand frozen tuna ground meat, raw but ready to eat, vacuum packaged units in fiber boxes, net wt. 11 lbs. per box. individual units were sold by weight at the point of sale. Product of Fiji, and imported by Tokai Denpun USA INC. Bellevue, WA. Vacuum package label is read in parts: Product of Fiji - Frozen Tuna Ground Meat, Keep Frozen.
Codes on the package: No codes printed on master cases or on vacuum original packages. The firm assigned their internal warehouse inventory system lot code for ground tuna for the first shipment as W7032594. However, upon return, the cases were assigned a new lot code W7034335 to segregate it away from the rest of the shipment in the warehouse inventory system. The second shipment internal lot code for the ground tuna is W7034472.
This recall is no longer in progress, but product already in your home is still recalled. If you have this product, don’t eat it or feed it. Throw it away, or return it where you bought it.
- Status
- Closed by the FDA (Terminated)
- Type
- Food
- Recalled by
- Tokai Denpun USA Inc
- Posted by the FDA
- Started by the firm
- Classified
- Sold in
- Distributed in CA, NC, NV, and TX between August 2021 and September 2021.
From the FDA
This recall is in the FDA’s Enforcement Report under recall number F-0409-2024. The headline above is a summary; the product descriptions are the FDA’s own words.