Important Alert: Check Your Freezers for Unsafe Frozen Catfish
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) wants everyone to know about a public health alert. Some frozen catfish that came from China should not be in the United States. It turns out these fish products didn’t meet the right safety rules and weren’t checked like they should be when they arrived here.
Why can’t we eat them? Well, the Chinese government didn’t say they were okay to send to us, and there’s no special number on the packages to show they passed inspection. Also, they didn’t get looked at again when they got here as they should have. This means they are not allowed to be brought into the U.S. and we should not eat them.
FSIS is working hard with other groups to find out how these catfish products got into the country.
If you are a store owner and you have these products, please do not sell them. If you bought some, don’t eat it. You should throw it away in a way that animals can’t get to it – put it in two bags first.
The fish product you should watch out for is:
- 12-oz. plastic packages labeled as “FROZEN STRIPED PANGASIUS MAWS.”
The packages don’t have the right labels or marks. They were sent to stores and places where they sell food in New York, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania. This was found out during a regular check by FSIS.
Remember, any meat, poultry, or eggs from other countries that are sold here need to be from places that have passed the right checks, and they have to be looked at again by FSIS when they arrive in the U.S. Some fish from China can come here, but only if they are from places that were given the okay.
So far, nobody has gotten sick from these fish products, but if you don’t feel well, you should definitely talk to a doctor.
If you still have questions about this alert, you can contact Susie Yang at the company Fuxin USA Inc. at 347-881-9899 or email fuxinusa@gmail.com.
Please be safe and check your freezers if you think you’ve bought these fish products!