FDA WARNING_LETTER - poultry products company, inc - August 27, 2013

On October 1, 2013, the FDA issued a Warning Letter to Poultry Products Company, Inc., dba Poultry Products Northeast, following an inspection from August 20-27, 2013. The inspection revealed serious violations of the seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulation (21 CFR Part 123) and the Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) regulation (21 CFR Part 110).

The FDA determined that the firm's refrigerated, pasteurized, canned crab meat and salted, smoked herring were adulterated due to preparation, packing, or holding under insanitary conditions, potentially rendering them injurious to health.

Key violations included: 1. **Lack of HACCP Plan:** No HACCP plan for refrigerated, pasteurized, canned crab meat to control *Clostridium botulinum*. 2. **Inadequate Hazard Analysis:** Failure to conduct a hazard analysis for refrigerated, pasteurized, canned crab meat. The HACCP plan for salted, smoked herring did not list histamine as a food safety hazard requiring a critical control point, despite the hazard analysis identifying it. The firm used a single HACCP plan for all products, rather than product-specific analyses. 3. **Missing Critical Control Points:** The HACCP plan for salted, smoked herring did not list the (b)(4) as a critical control point for histamine control. 4. **