In the first U.S. catfish recall of 2020, Golden Pearl Trading Corporation, doing business as Dandy Food Products, is recalling around 12,000 pounds of ready-to-eat catfish products.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) said the San Lorenzo, California-based importer did not present the catfish for import re-inspection into the U.S. and the products were imported from Singapore, a country ineligible to export ready-to-eat siluriformes products to the U.S.
The “Sugar Kid SALTED EGG FISH SKIN” snacks were shipped to distributors and retail locations in California, Hawaii, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Utah, and Washington.
Golden Pearl imported the products on various dates from around 26 September, 2019, through 24 December, 2019.
“The problem was discovered during a routine FSIS surveillance activity of imported products,” USDA FSIS said in a press release.
However, there have been no confirmed reports of adverse reactions from consuming the products.
U.S. importers recalled millions of pounds of imported catfish last year. Some of the importers told SeafoodSource they were unaware that siluriformes products are now subject to USDA inspection.
Among the recalls was nearly 70,000 pounds of yellow walking fish, imported by Wilmington, California-based J Deluca Fish Company Inc., doing business as Nautilus Seafood.
The products were produced at a Vietnamese facility that was not eligible to export siluriformes fish to the U.S., USDA FSIS said in a press release.
In addition, the yellow walking fish shipment was not presented for import re-inspection into the U.S., according to FSIS.
Photo courtesy of USDA FSIS
