FDA Food recall · Reported May 20, 2015
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
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 infecti…
The Santa Barbara Smokehouse, Inc. recalled Cambridge House Balmoral Thinly Sliced Exceptional Ready to Enjoy Smoked Salmon Keep … - a critical-severity action.
Cambridge House Balmoral Thinly Sliced Exceptional Ready to Enjoy Smoked Salmon Keep … was recalled by The Santa Barbara Smokehouse, Inc. in May 20, 2015. Reason: The firm was notified by two customers of two lot/batch numbers testing positive for Listeria monocytogenes w…. Check the official notice for the remedy. Verify recall #F-2270-2015 with the FDA Food before acting.
The recall
The Santa Barbara Smokehouse, Inc. issued this critical-severity FDA Food recall-The firm was notified by two customers of two lot/batch numbers testing positive for Listeria monocytogenes w….
- Critical
- severity level
- Class I
- classification
- May 20, 2015
- reported
Sourced from official FDA Food enforcement records. Verify recall #F-2270-2015 with the agency before acting. Full product description, hazard, remedy, and related recalls are below.
Recall Insight
This recall's affected scope, documented in the Recall Profile below, stays within a single-region or limited-distribution footprint. Distribution scope (see Distribution below) directly affects the consumer exposure window and determines whether a recall remains regional or escalates into a nationwide advisory.
Within the same product category the archive holds 6 closely related recalls, 6 from FDA Food - clustering in a narrow category often points to a systemic quality-control or supplier issue rather than a one-off defect. Always verify the recall number against the official agency record before acting.
Food recalls over time
Where this recall sits in its category - 25,457 food recalls on record
Of 88,244 recalls with an agency hazard classification, 19,068 are high severity, 64,652 moderate, and 4,524 low. A further 16,179 CPSC/NHTSA recalls have no agency class and are excluded from this split. This recall is classified high severity.
Counts reflect market size and reporting activity, not inherent danger, we do not rank products by risk from raw recall volume.
Product description
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 312 N. Nopal Santa Barbara, CA 93103 www.sbsmokehouse.com Products are distributed either refrigerated or frozen. All products are packaged in reduced oxygen packaging (ROP). Net weight appears to vary per package. Products are priced per weight.
Reason for recall
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 people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal
Recall Profile
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Agency | U.S. Food and Drug Administration |
| Severity class | Critical (Class I) |
| Status | Terminated |
| Recall number | F-2270-2015 |
| Date reported | May 20, 2015 |
| Date initiated | November 28, 2014 |
| Recalling firm | The Santa Barbara Smokehouse, Inc. |
| Firm location | Santa Barbara, CA |
| Affected scope | Batch 6549: 2,224 lbs. and Batch 8589: 1,188.44 lbs. |
| Distribution | 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 airlines. The firm confirm… |
Profile values are sourced directly from the official FDA Food enforcement record. Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
What to do with this recall
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- This is a Class I (high-risk) recall, stop using the product immediately and follow the disposal or return instructions. What to do next
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