Import Alert 16-118
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(Note: This import alert represents the Agency's current guidance to FDA field personnel regarding the manufacturer(s) and/or products(s) at issue. It does not create or confer any rights for or on any person, and does not operate to bind FDA or the public).
Import Alert # 16-118
Published Date: 03/18/2011
Type: DWPE
Import Alert Name:
"Detention Without Physical Examination Of Salted Jellyfish And Dried Squid From Hang Loong Marine Products, Hong Kong"
Reason for Alert:
Since October of 1995, San Francisco district has detained eight (8) entries of salted jellyfish and dried squid combined from this firm, representing 89% of the firm's shipments examined. The district collected and analyzed five and three samples of Salted Jellyfish and Dried Squid respectively, and found numerous insects, whole and fragments, striated hairs (rat/mouse, cat/dog, bat), and feathers.
Guidance:
Districts may detain, without physical sampling and analysis, salted jellyfish and dried squid from the Hang Loong Marine Products Co., 48-50 First Street, Hong Kong.
Product Description:
Salted Jellyfish and Dried Squid
Charge:
"The article is subject to refusal of admission pursuant to Section 801(a)(3) in that it appears to contain insects, rodent hairs, bird feathers, bat hairs, cat/dog hairs, and mites. [Adulteration, Section 402(a)(3)]"
OASIS charge code - FILTHY
OASIS charge code - FILTHY
HONG KONG
Hang Loong Marine Food Products Co.
Date Published : 09/10/2009
G/floor, 48-50 First Street , Hong Kong, HK-NA HONG KONG
16 M - H 08 Jellyfish, Other Aquatic Species
Date Published: 09/10/2009
16 P - H 03 Squid, Cakes, Balls, Etc., Other Aquatic Species
Date Published: 09/10/2009
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