Cambridge House Balmoral Thinly Sliced Exceptional Ready to Enjoy Smoked Salmon Keep Refrigerated at 38 or below Ingredients Atlantic Salmon, Salt, Sugar, and Oakwood Smoke Produced By: The Santa Barbara Smokehouse 312 N. Nopal Santa Barbara, CA 93103 www.sbsmokehouse.com Coastal Harbor by The Santa Barbara Smokehouse Smoked Atlantic Salmon Keep Refrigerated at 38 or below Ingredients Atlantic Salmon, Salt, Sugar, and Oakwood Smoke Produced By: The Santa Barbara Smokehouse

Recall Insight

This FDA Food action (record #F-2270-2015) was formally reported on May 20, 2015, with the manufacturer initiating the action on November 28, 2014. It is classified under Critical severity (Class I), with a current status of Terminated. The Santa Barbara Smokehouse, Inc. is listed as the recalling firm, operating out of Santa Barbara, CA. Federal records indicate Batch 6549: 2,224 lbs. and Batch 8589: 1,188.44 lbs. units are affected, placing this recall in the million-unit bracket that typically triggers nationwide consumer alerts and retailer sweeps.

The documented reason for this recall is: The firm was notified by two customers of two lot/batch numbers testing positive for Listeria monocytogenes which is an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly … Distribution data in the federal record shows the product reached: All products were sold to distributors located within the U.S. (CA, TX, AZ, NV, OR, NY, IL). Distributors sells these products to food service facilities. Some of these food service facilities provide food for airline…. Distribution scope directly affects the consumer exposure window and determines whether a recall remains regional or escalates into a nationwide advisory.

To put this record in context, PlainRecalls indexes 83,949 recalls across the FDA, CPSC, NHTSA and USDA FSIS going back to 1995. Within the same product category, the database holds 6 closely related recalls, of which 6 were also issued by FDA Food. That clustering is a signal — repeated actions in a narrow category often indicate a systemic quality-control issue, a supplier-wide contamination, or a design defect that has propagated across product lines. This recall is roughly 11 years old; older recalls can remain relevant because many units enter resale, rental, and secondary-market channels where the original warning never reaches the end user. Always cross-check the recall number against the official agency page before relying on any summary.