Hartford Provision Company Inc. d/b/a HPC Foodservice – FDA Warning Letter, Jul 10, 2015

The FDA inspected Hartford Provision Company's seafood processing facility from June to July 2015, identifying serious violations of the seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulation (21 CFR Part 123). This renders their refrigerated ready-to-eat, canned pasteurized crab meat and seafood salad adulterated under Section 402(a)(4) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

Key violations include: 1. **Inadequate Hazard Analysis:** The HACCP plan for pasteurized canned crab meat and refrigerated, ready-to-eat seafood salad failed to list *Clostridium botulinum* growth and toxin formation or pathogenic bacteria growth and toxin formation as reasonably likely food safety hazards. 2. **Missing Critical Control Point (CCP):** The HACCP plan did not list "receiving" as a CCP for controlling pathogenic bacterial growth and toxin formation or *Clostridium botulinum* growth and toxin formation. Consequently, receiving temperatures were not consistently monitored, with delays up to 2.5 days, and no corrective actions were taken for temperature deviations (e.g., crab meat received at 44.6°F). 3. **Insufficient Monitoring Procedures:** The HACCP plan's monitoring procedures and frequency for the storage CCP were inadequate to control pathogenic bacterial growth and toxin formation or *Clostridium botulinum* growth and toxin formation, particularly for refrigerated loading docks. 4