IA #16-23 - Revised 07/09/96, Attachment - 5/1/92
SUBJECT : "***Detention Without Physical Examination ***of Fresh and
Frozen Lobster/Lobster Tails from India"
TYPE OF ALERT: ***Detention Without Physical Examination***
Note: This is alert is being revised to provide changes to
format and/or terminology and are bracketed by asterisks
(***).
***(NOTE: This import alert contains guidance to FDA field
personnel only. It does not establish any requirments, or
create any rights or obligations on FDA or on regulated
entitie.)***
PRODUCT : Fresh or Frozen Lobster/Lobster Tails
PRODUCT CODE : 16J__04
PROBLEM : Decomposition (MSDC)
COUNTRY : India (IN, 455)
MANUFACTURER/
SHIPPER : N/A
IMPORTER'S
ID# : N/A
CHARGE : "The article is subject to refusal of admission pursuant to
Section 801(a)(3) in that it appears to consist in whole or in
part of a filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance, or is
otherwise unfit for food in that it appears to be decomposed
[Adulteration, Section 402(a)(3)."]
RECOMMENDING
OFFICE : Division of Import Operations and Policy (HFC-170)
REASON FOR
ALERT : From October 1, 1982, through March 31, 1983, FDA detained 14
of 32 entries of fresh/frozen lobster/lobster tails from India
examined for decomposition (44% violation rate). Twelve of the
detentions were solely for decomposition. Two were for both
salmonella and decomposition.
FY 91 detention data shows five detentions representing five
different firms in India. Review of sample collections and
analyses data for FY 91 revealed that 13 had been collected
with 4 violations for decomposition (31%). Also two of the
four violative samples were from firms in the exempt list
(Castlerock Seafoods and Sawant Food Products).
No detention data for Salmonella were noted although this
should not be overlooked as a possible problem area.
GUIDANCE : ***Districts may detain, without physical examination***, all
fresh/frozen lobster tails from India, except those firms on
the attachment. If a sufficient number of violative samples
are noted for exempt firms, recommend to DIOP that these firms
be removed from exempt status.
Audit of private laboratory results which are negative for
decomposition is also recommended.
***For questions or issues concerning science, science policy,
sample collection, analysis, preparation, or analytical
methodology, contact the Division of Field Science at (301)
443-3320 or 3007.***
KEYWORDS : Lobster, Tails, Decomposition
FOI : No purging is required
PREPARED
BY : Linda Wisniowski, DIOP, (301) 443-6553
Attachment - Import Alert #16-23 5/1/92
Packers Excluded from Detention Without Physical Examination
Alsa Marine & Harvests
10 Taylors Road
Kilpauk, Chennai 600010
India
Amulya Sea Foods
166-A North Beach Road
Tuticorin, India
Castlerock Seafoods Pvt. Ltd.
203 Dalamil Chambers
New Marine Lines
Bombay, India 400020
Cham ice and Cold Storage
(a/k/a Cham Marine Products Pvt. Ltd.)
(a/k/a Cham Trading Organization)
Porbandar, India
Haravati Ice and Cold Storage
Fish Market Porbandar
Gujarat, India 360575
King Fisheries, Ltd.
Cochin, India
Ravi Fisheries Pvt. Ltd.
(Ravi Fish Industries Pvt. Ltd.)
Bombay, India
Sawant Fisheries Pvt. Ltd.
(Sawant Food Products Ltd.)
Bombay, India
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