Product Recall

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Product Recall

• What All seafood products manufactured from the
  Hope Food Supply Inc. Texas facility since
  20071
• Date of Recall 16 May 2008
• 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
• Distributed Nationwide3
• Incidents None reported4

Source US Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnounc
ements/2008/ucm116898.htm
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Management Issues

• 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.
• 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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Impact of Recall

• Legal Consequences No legal consequences were
  reported.
• Reputation Non-existent. They are closed.
• 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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References

• 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-foo
  d-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 lthttp//wcco.com/consumer/hope.food.r
  ecall.2.726201.htmlgt
• 5 Marler, Bill. FDA Tells Hope Food Supply to
  Shut Down. Food Poison Journal (2008). 2 Nov.
  2010 lthttp//www.foodpoisonjournal.com/2008/05/art
  icles/food-poisoning-watch/fda-tells-hope-food-sup
  ply-to-shut-down/gt