IA#16-47 - Revised 03/03/97
SUBJ : "***Detention Without Physical Examination*** of
Red Snapper from Thailand"
TYPE OF ALERT : ***DETENTIONM WITHOUT PHYSICAL EXAMINATION***
Note: This 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 requirements, or create any rights or
obligations on FDA or on regulated entities.)***
PRODUCT : Seafood, "Red Snapper"
PRODUCT CODE : 16[][]37
PROBLEM : Species Substitution
PAC : 21004, 21844
COUNTRY : Thailand (875)
MANUFACTURER/
SHIPPER : All
CHARGE : "The article is subject to refusal of admission
pursuant to section 801(a)(3), in that it
appears to be misbranded because Red Snapper is
not the common or usual name of the fish
[misbranding, section 403(b)]".
RECOMMENDING
OFFICE : LOS-DO
REASON FOR
ALERT : A recent series of four LOS-DO import fish
samples, all invoiced as "red snapper" and
originating from Thailand, were found to consist
of fish other than Lutjanus campechanus. These
samples were from three different sources in
Thailand and at least one sample consisted of
more than one species of fish indiscriminately
labeled as "red snapper." It is apparent that:
a. A number of producers in Thailand are
labeling many varieties of fish as "red
snapper"
b. Although there are snappers native to
Thailand that are red, Lutjanus campechanus,
the only fish which may be sold as red
snapper in the U.S., is not native to
Thailand. See Import Alert No. 16-04,
Misbranded Seafood, for the areas from which
the species Lutjanus campechanus is normally
available.
GUIDANCE : ***Districts may detain, without physical
examination*** all entries of fish originating
from Thailand and labeled as red snapper since
the species Lutjanus campechanus does not occur
in the waters surrounding Thailand.
FOI : No purging is required.
KEYWORDS : Red Snapper, Seafood, Misbranded, Species
Substitution, Lutjanus Campechanus
PREPARED BY : Fredda Shere Valenti, DIOP, (301)443-6553
DATE LOADED
INTO FIARS : 3/3/97
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