Posted on 07/08/2022 10:52:02 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Two Chinese seafood firms have received warnings from the U.S. the Food and Drug Administration in regard to problems with hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP) controls in their processing plants ...
The rest of story, including the names of the companies, are behind a paywall.
Half the seafood Walmart sells, frozen or canned, is from China.
Much as I love salmon and smoked baby clams, I do not trust Chinese salmon and baby clams.
American salmon is more than twice the price. American canned baby clams do not exist, as far as I can tell.
Chinese fishing fleets regularly fish in other nations’ territorial waters. The Chinese military also forces other nations’ fishing fleets from their own waters. Don’t buy crap from China, particularly seafood.
As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent. Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. Warning letters often are not issued until a company has been given months to years to correct problems. i>i>
A food firm in China is on notice from the FDA for serious violations of the seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulation.
In a May 4 warning letter, the FDA described a Dec. 13-15, 2021, inspection of Hainan Golden Spring Foods Co. Ltd’s seafood processing facility in Meilan Qu, Haikou Shi, Hainan Sheng, China.
The FDA’s inspection revealed that the firm was not in compliance with HACCP regulations and resulted in the issuance of an FDA Form 483. The significant violations are as follows:
The firm must implement the monitoring and verification procedures and frequency that they have listed in their HACCP plan. However, the firm did not follow monitoring and verification procedures for every lot at the (redacted) critical control point to control aquaculture drug residues listed in their HACCP plan for raw frozen reduced oxygen packed tilapia fillets, dated March 7, 2021. Specifically,
a. Their production records for finished product lot # (redacted) (redacted) lists a total of (redacted) drug residue testing results under the (redacted) method conducted by their laboratory between Aug. 17 to Aug. 28, 2021. FDA investigators reviewed their laboratory’s (redacted) FC equipment use log and found only (redacted) tests were run between the same timeframe.
b. Their production records for finished product lot # (redacted) (redacted) lists a total of (redacted) drug residue testing results under the (redacted) method conducted by their laboratory between Nov. 16-26, 2021. FDA investigators reviewed their laboratory’s (redacted) FC equipment use log and found only (redacted) tests were run in the same timeframe.
The firm could not explain the discrepancy because its laboratory does not keep sample preparation records. The laboratory employees estimated that (redacted) percent of the test on the testing reports for 2020 and 2021 were actually conducted. FDA investigators discussed this with them during the inspection closeout meeting. In their response submitted on Jan. 5, 2022, they stated their corrective actions would include implementing HACCP plan CCP1 monitoring and verification activities. They submitted a revised HACCP plan, dated Dec. 20, 2021, and monitoring records for five consecutive days running from Dec. 27-31, 2021. The FDA acknowledges that the revised HACCP plan includes a verification procedure to “(redacted)” and provided an inter-laboratory comparison and verification report with their response. However, the FDA has determined that its response is inadequate. Their laboratory comparison report only compares a single test from a single lot for (redacted), which is not a representative sample. Furthermore, their report does not show that their test kits can detect aquaculture drugs at the reported level (redacted) ug/kg as compared to the national standard method used in external laboratories.
The full warning letter can be viewed here.
A food firm in China is on notice from the FDA for serious violations of the seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulation.
In a May 9 warning letter, the FDA described a March 3-4, 2022, inspection of Zhoushan Haichang Co. Ltd.’s seafood processing facility in Shenjiamen, Putuo District Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China.
The FDA’s inspection revealed that the firm was not in compliance with HACCP regulations and resulted in the issuance of an FDA Form 483. The significant deviations are as follows:
1. The firm must 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. However, the firm’s HACCP plan for Frozen (cut) swimming crab does not list the critical control point of labeling to control the food safety hazard of sulfites. Their current plan lists a (redacted) critical limit for sulfites that allows acceptance of crabs with residues up to (redacted) ppm. FDA requires the declaration of the presence of sulfites when sulfite residues are 10 ppm or greater on labels and a critical control point to assure accurate labeling. If they choose not to declare the presence of sulfites on their labels and establish a critical control point in their plan, FDA recommends adjusting their current receiving critical limit to exclude raw material swimming crabs with residues of 10 ppm or greater.
2. The firm must conduct or have conducted for them a hazard analysis for each kind of fish and fishery product that they produce 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 food safety hazards that are reasonably likely to occur. A food safety hazard is defined as “any biological, chemical, or physical property that may cause a food to be unsafe for human consumption.” However, the firm’s HACCP plan does not list the food safety hazard of allergens associated with the frozen cut swimming crab (crustacean).
3. They must monitor the conditions and practices during processing with sufficient frequency to ensure, at a minimum, conformance with the current good manufacturing practice requirements. The firm failed to monitor with sufficient frequency the 8 key areas of food safety as demonstrated:
a. Safety of water as required. During the inspection, there were debris and residue in water used to produce ice.
The full warning letter can be viewed here.
A guy at work is from China and he won’t eat anything that comes from China. Tells you something.
China couldn’t care less; they are a law unto themselves, smiling while committing all manner crimes and bullying. Often, they don’t even bother to smile anymore.
“American salmon is more than twice the price. American canned baby clams do not exist, as far as I can tell.”
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I simply cannot find Baby Clams that are not sourced from China.
American Salmon is good. I cannot begin to explain to my beloved how badly I want some good Baby Clams. Sigh.
And it seems no matter the brand, anything to do with Oysters are the same way.
I asked my beloved, “...just where the hell are the American Mariners sending the products they get from the sea???”
Only idiots eat Chinese food.
I heard that Atlantic Salmon, coming from Chile, is farmed !!!
Should I be concerned with that. They say Pacific Salmon is all fresh.
Canada used to export smoked baby clams to the US. I loved them. I won’t touch Chinese food.
To get US clams one needs to be near the sea. Clams are highly perishable, unless kept in flowing seawater. Canned clams are a low value clam, to be avoided, if one likes clams. Some markets carry live Little Neck clams from the Pacific North West as they have a better shelf life.
Never buy a fresh clam that is open, aka dead. Never buy any seafood anywhere that has a “fishy” odor. Fresh seafood smells very faintly of the salt ocean. Only buy flash frozen seafood.
Seafood on ice in the grocery store is not a good place to buy it. Grocery stores, by in large, have no idea how to keep and display seafood. Ice must be 26 deg and cover completely the seafood in a case, else it begins to rot.
There is no such thing as a baby clam. Clams so labeled are just regular clams graded small. Real baby clams are about 1/4-1/8” the size and thickness of your little finger’s nail.
Never ever buy farmed salmon, Chinese or otherwise - unless you enjoy healthy doses of antibiotics, growth hormones, red dye, and cuprous oxide, aka bottom paint. All Chinese salmon are farmed - there are no native runs of salmon in China.
If you want real seafood buy direct from the fisherman - many sell online. Else settle for products rotting and filled with chemicals.
the “ihealth covid19 antigen rapid test” that’s being distributed under “fda emergency use authorization” is made in china...
women can pee on a device to determine pregnancy results...
kinda strange that people are being required to shove a chinese made product up their noses at this point in time...
I heard that Atlantic Salmon, coming from Chile, is farmed !!! Should I be concerned with that. They say Pacific Salmon is all fresh.
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Yes! With farmed salmon from anywhere, you get to enjoy healthy doses of antibiotics, growth hormones, red dye, and cuprous oxide, aka bottom paint. Bon appetite!
Store bought salmon are labeled “Wild Caught”; all farmed salmon must be labeled “Farmed”. No label, no buy.
Real fresh salmon is only available from the fisherman. Else its has been processed to some degree, packaged, shipped, sat in some warehouse, displayed on some grocer’s counter with ice under it, unsold, brought out the next day, then, when the rot is too bad, mixed with flavorings and sold as a different product and is only relatively fresh.
As everyone knows cold falls down hill, so putting fish on top of ice does nothing and only exposes the fish to the cooler’s circulating air, slowly dehydrating it. Fish must be keep refrigerated under ice at 26 degrees, aka green ice. Flash frozen fish is excellent, as they are frozen with in 15 minutes of being brought aboard the boat - this is usually Alaskan cod.
Buy from fishermen online. Know who killed your food.
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