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title: "Takumi brand frozen tuna ground meat, raw but ready to eat, vacuum packaged u... — FDA record F-0409-2024 | Is It on Recall"
description: "Histamine, high total plate count, coliforms, and E.coli (serotype is unknown)."
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# Takumi brand frozen tuna ground meat, raw but ready to eat, vacuum packaged units in fiber boxes, net wt. 11 lbs. per... — FDA record F-0409-2024

Reported terminated

Status as reported in the agency record. FDA warns that enforcement status may not track the current recall lifecycle; check the current official notice.

Source date Oct 5, 2021. Retrieved Oct 1, 2026. Last updated Oct 1, 2026.

Archive changed Oct 1, 2026. USDA FSIS records are unavailable; [check FSIS directly](https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls). [Source coverage and dates](https://isitonrecall.com/sources/).

## What the record says

- **Product**: Takumi brand frozen tuna ground meat, raw but ready to eat, vacuum packaged units in fiber boxes, net wt. 11 lbs. per box. individual units were sold by weight at the point of sale. Product of Fiji, and imported by Tokai Denpun USA INC. Bellevue, WA. Vacuum package label is read in parts: Product of Fiji - Frozen Tuna Ground Meat, Keep Frozen.
- **Reason**: Histamine, high total plate count, coliforms, and E.coli (serotype is unknown).
- **Classification**: Class II
- **Recalling firm**: Tokai Denpun USA Inc
- **Quantity**: 686 cases
- **Agency-reported status**: Terminated
- **Source record identifier**: F-0409-2024

[Open the official record](https://api.fda.gov/food/enforcement.json?search=recall_number%3A%22F-0409-2024%22)

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## Lot and product identifiers

| Label field | Details supplied by the agency |
| --- | --- |
| Lot, code or applicability | No codes printed on master cases or on vacuum original packages. The firm assigned their internal warehouse inventory system lot code for ground tuna for the first shipment as W7032594. However, upon return, the cases were assigned a new lot code W7034335 to segregate it away from the rest of the shipment in the warehouse inventory system. The second shipment internal lot code for the ground tuna is W7034472. |

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## Distribution

Distributed in CA, NC, NV, and TX between August 2021 and September 2021.

States below are derived from the distribution text, including nationwide wording. They are not inferred from the firm's address.

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- [Texas](https://isitonrecall.com/state/texas/)

## Dates in the source

- **Report date**: Nov 22, 2023
- **Recall initiation date**: Oct 5, 2021
- **Center classification date**: Nov 13, 2023
- **Termination date**: Nov 16, 2023

FDA company pages use the listing date; enforcement records use initiation dates; CPSC uses recall date; NHTSA uses report-received date. These dates are not interchangeable.

## What to do next

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[Read the current instructions](https://api.fda.gov/food/enforcement.json?search=recall_number%3A%22F-0409-2024%22)

## Related records

[Tuna records](https://isitonrecall.com/product/tuna/) [Seafood records](https://isitonrecall.com/category/seafood/) [Tokai Denpun USA Inc records](https://isitonrecall.com/brand/tokai-denpun-usa-inc/)