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Frozen shrimp recall expanded after more cases of salmonella: FDA

Tuesday, 17 August 2021, 12:30 MJA Uncategorized 10

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NYP: The US Food and Drug Administration’s national recall of frozen shrimp has been expanded due to salmonella risks impacting major national chain stores like Target, Whole Foods and Meijer.

The growing recall of shrimp from Avanti Frozen Foods now includes cooked, peeled and deveined products sold nationwide in various packaging sizes between November 2020 and May 2021, according to FDA officials.

Among the recalled brands are major retailer products such as Whole Foods’ popular 365 line of products, as well as national grocery store chains Meijer and Food Lion. Contaminated shrimp also may have been sold at Mai Sushi inside some Target locations in California, as well as at Genji Sushi inside some Whole Foods Markets, also in California.

The FDA first issued its nationwide recall of Avanti shrimp products in June. At that point, six people had fallen ill in cases connected to the company’s frozen product distributed nationwide from late December 2020 to late February 2021. more

10 Comments on Frozen shrimp recall expanded after more cases of salmonella: FDA

  2. They don’t say where the shrimp originated from. Most likely Indonesia farm raised shrimp that are grown in a soup of antibiotics to keep them from dying from overcrowding in rearing ponds. YUK! Eat only wild caught seafood products. It’s safer in any case.

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  5. “six people had fallen ill in cases connected to the company’s frozen product…”

    frozen food is tough because you have no real kill step after sealing, so you REALLY have to control the environment it is filled in, the equipment it’s filled ON, and how thoroughly and how quickly its frozen.

    And even then, it’s prepared ‘for further processing’, meaning it is NOT considered ready to eat and you have to trust the customer to store AND cook that crap correctly. You need daily swabs of your processing area, tight control of what your folks wear into to processing area, control your folks washing their hands, limit entry to only mandoors that go through foot baths of some kind, have your forklift operators clean off their raw material totes BEFORE introducing them to the room, be zealous about the cleanliness of the contact stuff you contract for like films and containers, and a BUNCH of other stuff, all of which is because you can’t trust the end user to follow the cooking instructions and the nature of the product precludes a full kill step in a hermetically sealed container.

    Now do this with your crew comprised mostly of French dialect African Muslims whos response to every English instruction is vigorous head-nodding, but their actions show they didn’t understand a damn thing.

    Also, it’s not as regulatory an environment as most meat products and it’s mosly under the aegis of the Department of Commerce, and while I’m not a HUGE regulatory fan I can tell you that most food companies would cut WAY more corners and do WAY less processing if they posdibly could, so it has its place.

    Never did sushi, so can’t tell you about that. Sushi ALWAYS seems like a bad idea to me, so if you get some, take it home and cook it, and it will taste like fish 😉

    And I know it SAYS “peeled, deveined, AND COOKED on some of it, but again that is kind of a loose term that only means it was heated at some point prior to filling the bag, NOT that there was a kill step, so again its on the CONSUMER to cook it CORRECTLY.

    that said, if it’s stored improperly or the “cook” step is inadequate or the hold conditions are not cold enough or…worst of ALL, if it’s thawed and refrozen…the bactera load may be more than the cooking instructions are meant to deal with, but even then, the end user SHOULD be alert for posdible spoilage in non-sealed or resealable products in ALL cases.

    But I personally despise shrimp, so I can say in all sincerity that the BEST way to not get poisoned is don’t eat that gross crap in the FIRST place…

  8. According to Google, Avanti Frozen Foods is based out of India, mostly in Andhra Pradesh. I am guessing that they may source their shrimp from India, but they may also be straw company that “launders” banned shrimp, mostly from China.

  9. “…straw company that “launders” banned shrimp, mostly from China.”

    Gaaaaaaah!!! FFS how messed up is this world where we have people
    selling black market and laundered skrimp.

    Please, hurry magnetic shift! lol

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