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Tokai Denpun USA Inc
FDA recall F-0409-2024 · Class II · reported 2023-11-22 · Terminated
- Product
- Takumi brand frozen tuna ground meat, raw but ready to eat, vacuum packaged units in fiber boxes, net wt. 11 lbs. per box. individual units were sold by weight at the point of sale. Product of Fiji, and imported by Tokai Denpun USA INC. Bellevue, WA. Vacuum package label is read in parts: Product of Fiji - Frozen Tuna Ground Meat, Keep Frozen.
- Reason
- Histamine, high total plate count, coliforms, and E.coli (serotype is unknown).
- Quantity
- 686 cases
- Distribution
- Distributed in CA, NC, NV, and TX between August 2021 and September 2021.
- Firm location
- WA, United States
- Initiated
- Voluntary: Firm initiated
- First notice
- Telephone
- Recall started
- 2021-10-05
- Terminated
- 2023-11-16
- Code info
- No codes printed on master cases or on vacuum original packages. The firm assigned their internal warehouse inventory system lot code for ground tuna for the first shipment as W7032594. However, upon return, the cases were assigned a new lot code W7034335 to segregate it away from the rest of the shipment in the warehouse inventory system. The second shipment internal lot code for the ground tuna is W7034472.
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, openFDA Food Enforcement database (openFDA Food Enforcement, imported 2026-09). The FDA does not validate openFDA data for completeness or accuracy. This is a record of an enforcement action, not safety advice.