Dive Summary:

• In one of its first tests of newer FSMA policies, the FDA has sent a warning letter to Stonington Sea Products, a seafood processor in Maine, after the facility failed a four-day inspection.
• According to the agency, Stonington failed several of the critical safety points and had displayed an inadequate response when asked to improve upon those points.
• The warning letter is the first step the FDA can take in cases like this, the last would be to revoke the production facilities registration, as seen last year in the Sunland case.

From the article:

The agency said the failure of a processor of fish or fishery products to have and implement a HACCP plan that complies or otherwise operate in accordance with the relevant requirements renders the fish or fishery products adulterated.

“Accordingly, your ready-to-eat (RTE), seafood products, including refrigerated ready to eat (RTE) crabmeat are adulterated, in that they have been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby they may have been rendered injurious to health.”