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Seafood Firm Neglected Food Safety Obligations

By PritzkerLaw

A Minneapolis seafood firm that failed to adhere to food safety laws has been blocked from operating under a ruling in federal court.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the injunction this week against Captain's Select Seafood Inc.. The company got into trouble with the FDA last June for not having adequate plans for identifying food safety hazards and preventing them.

At the time, the FDA said the company had paperwork violations that ran from 2004 through at least early 2008. Under the injunction, Captain's Select can't resume business without getting the FDA or a federal court to sign off on its paperwork.

The company packaged, held and distributed a variety of fresh, frozen and ready-to-eat fish products from suppliers in Florida, Maine, Maryland and Massachusetts.

Tom Kane, an attorney for the seafood firm, said the permanent injunction is "meaningless" because the company has been effectively out of business since soon after the FDA filed its initial complaint. Kane said the company believed it had filled out the paperwork properly.

Full post as published by Food Poisoning Law Blog on February 24, 2009 (boomark / email).