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More catfish recalled in the United States

More than 120,000 pounds of catfish – both wild and farmed – are being recalled in the United States due to lack of government inspections.

Earlier this month, City of Industry, California-based Richwell Group, Inc., doing business as Maxfield Seafood, recalled around 55,300 pounds of frozen Sheat catfish products that were not presented for import re-inspection into the U.S. 

Several other importers have been forced to recall catfish recently for similar issues.

In one of two new recalls, issued on 22 February, Houston, Texas-based Fulton Seafood Inc. recalled around 100,924 pounds of wild catfish products that were not subject to federal inspection, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) said in a press release…

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