Risk of botulism, a rare but serious kind of poisoning.
Above, in the agency’s own words. The line before it is our plain-English summary — how we word these.
Issued by the US Food and Drug Administration, naming Bornstein Seafoods.
5-pound cans of unpasteurized, ready-to-eat, Dungeness crab meat, packaged in reduced oxygen metal cans that were shipped with Fresh-Check B Time Temperature Indicator (TTIs). Product was shipped frozen. The label is read in parts: "***BORNSTEIN SEAFOODS ***WILD Dungeness CRAB MEAT***INGREDIENTS: CRAB MEAT WITH SALT ADDED ***NET WT 5 LB***HANDLING INSTRUCTIONS: To protect the delicate flavor and texture of this crab meat, we recommend the following handling practices***KEEP REFRIGERATED: 33-38 degrees F, after opening, cover remaining product during storage***PACKED BY BORNSTEIN SEAFOODS INC. ASTORIA, OR 97103***".
Quoted from the record as published. If a product is not described here, this notice does not tell us whether it was affected.
The FDA’s most serious class: a reasonable probability that using the product will cause serious health consequences or death.
This is the agency’s own definition of the class. We do not assign classes and we do not rank them against each other.
Regulates most packaged food, drugs and devices. Its recall records are published weekly in the Enforcement Report.
We have not matched this notice to any product in our database — usually because it named no barcode we hold. Products may still have been affected.
This notice concerns the product line itself or how it was produced.
The FDA publishes this notice through its enforcement API, so the link below returns raw JSON rather than a readable page. It is the primary record and we cite it as such; everything above is our transcription of it.
To see it in the FDA’s own words, search the reference number F-0841-2019 in the Search the FDA Enforcement Report. The FDA publishes no direct link to an individual recall.