Import Alert 16-47
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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 # 16-47
Published Date: 10/07/2011
Type: DWPE
Import Alert Name:
"Detention Without Physical Examination of Red Snapper from Thailand"
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.
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.
For questions or issues concerning science, science policy, sample collection, analysis, preparation, or analytical methodology, contact the Division of Field Science at (301) 796-6600.
All requests for removal from detention without physical examination should be address to DIOP 301-796-0356.
For questions or issues concerning science, science policy, sample collection, analysis, preparation, or analytical methodology, contact the Division of Field Science at (301) 796-6600.
All requests for removal from detention without physical examination should be address to DIOP 301-796-0356.
Product Description:
Seafood, "Red Snapper"
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)]"
OASIS charge code - WRONG IDEN
OASIS charge code - WRONG IDEN
Countries
THAILAND
(16 A - - 37) Snapper (Red, Gray, Malabar, etc.)
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