Personal Injury Law

Portland Shellfish hit with Consent Degree due to "food that was prepared, packed or held under insanitary conditions"

By Marler Clark

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today that the Portland Shellfish Co., Inc.; Jeffrey D. Holden, company president; Satyavan Singh, quality manager; and John A. Maloney, general manager, have signed a consent decree prohibiting them from distributing seafood in interstate commerce until the FDA has approved in writing the company's Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) plans, sanitation program and Listeria monocytogenes (L. mono) testing program.

The seafood processor, based in Portland, Maine, sells ready-to-eat lobster, shrimp and crab products to retailers in Massachusetts, California, Georgia, Illinois, Nevada, Washington, New Jersey and Louisiana.

The consent decree, entered by Judge John A. Woodcock in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, on Jan. 20, 2011, stems from evidence that Portland Shellfish violated the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act by introducing into interstate commerce food that was prepared, packed or held under insanitary conditions.

Full post as published by Listeria Blog on January 21, 2011 (boomark / email).