Transcript 2003ProductRecall_CalebHowell_HopeFoodSupply

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What: All seafood products manufactured from the Hope Food Supply
Inc. Texas facility since 2007[1]
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Date of Recall: 16 May 2008
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Why: Hope Food Supply (HFS) Inc. had been required to develop and
implement an adequate Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point
(HACCP) plan for its seafood products. The firm never developed this
plan.
 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires that all seafood
processors develop and implement adequate HACCP plans that identify all
likely food safety hazards for each kind of processed seafood product, and set
forth preventative measures to control those hazards.
 Without adequate controls, seafood products can contain pathogenic bacteria
such as Staphylococcus aureus and Listeria monocytogenes.[2]
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Distributed: Nationwide[3]
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Incidents: None reported[4]
Source: US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAn
nouncements/2008/ucm116898.htm
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Recognition of Problem:
 No sources could be found to indicate that HFS ever
responded to the FDA sanctions.
 Nor were any sources found to show that HFS even
acknowledged the absence of an HACCP plan.
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Speed of Response to Problem:
 HFS seemed as though they were not concerned with
the FDA mandate or loss of work.[5]
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Legal Consequences: No legal consequences
were reported.
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Reputation: Non-existent. They are closed.
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Sales: The company could not restart
manufacturing until they had implemented an
FDA-approved HACCP plan.[1]
 There are no reports of Hope Food Supply ever
developing an HACCP plan.
 They never reopened.
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[1] US Food and Drug Administration. (2010). FDA Shuts Down Seafood
Processing Company, Requires Products Be Recalled. (FDA Press Release).
[2] “Hope Food Supply Shut Down and Ordered to Recall Seafood.”
2 Nov. 2010. Retrieved from
http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/case/hope-food-closed.html.
[3] “FDA Shuts Down Hope Food Supply Inc.” WRDW News (2008). 2 Nov.
2010 http://www.wrdw.com/news/headlines/19009589.html
[4] “FDA Orders Texas Plant To Shut Down, Issue Recall.” Associated Press.
WCCO-TV News (2008). 2 Nov. 2010
<http://wcco.com/consumer/hope.food.recall.2.726201.html>
[5] Marler, Bill. “FDA Tells Hope Food Supply to Shut Down.” Food Poison
Journal (2008). 2 Nov. 2010
<http://www.foodpoisonjournal.com/2008/05/articles/food-poisoningwatch/fda-tells-hope-food-supply-to-shut-down/>
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