USDA2019-05-28Class IINSPECTION VIOLATION

Richwell Group frozen catfish products recalled for lack of import inspection

Nationwide distribution

Throw out Richwell Group frozen catfish products

Richwell Group, doing business as Maxfield Seafood, imported approximately 160,020 pounds of frozen Yellow Walking Fish and Mystus Fish from Vietnam without proper U.S. import inspection. The products came from a Vietnamese facility not approved to export these fish to the United States. The frozen fish were sold nationwide from March 2018 through January 2019.

Do not eat these products if you have them in your freezer
Throw away any frozen Yellow Walking Fish or Mystus Fish from this recall
Return products to the store where you bought them if possible
Contact a doctor if you have eaten these products and feel sick

Hazard

Produced Without Benefit of Inspection, Import Violation

Affected count

1,371 pounds

Products

Varying weights of packages containing 2 pieces of “FARM RAISED INDIVIDUALLY QUICK FROZEN” “FROZEN HEADLESS YELLOW WALKING FISH Clarias macrocephalics”. , Varying weights of packages containing 3 pieces of “FARM RAISED INDIVIDUALLY QUICK FROZEN” “FROZEN HEADLESS YELLOW WALKING FISH Clarias macrocephalics”. , Varying weights of packages containing 2 pieces of “FARM RAISED INDIVIDUALLY QUICK FROZEN” “FROZEN YELLOW WALKING FISH Clarias macrocephalics”. , Varying weights of packages containing 3 pieces of “FARM RAISED INDIVIDUALLY QUICK FROZEN” “FROZEN YELLOW WALKING FISH Clarias macrocephalics”. , 14-oz. packages of “WILD CAUGHT INDIVIDUALLY VACUUM PACK” “FROZEN HEADLESS CLEANED MYSTUS FISH”.

Consumer contact

Mitch Adams

Official notice

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-alerts/richwell-group-inc.-recalls-siluriformes-products-produced-without-benefit-import

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