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Government Agencies
Korean-Owned StarKist Tuna Says 'No' To FDA
by Dan Flynn | Mar 09, 2011

After crossing 3,400 miles of the Pacific Ocean last year to inspect a tuna cannery on American Samoa, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspector asked for copies of some records from the StarKist Co.
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StarKist, once a unit of San Francisco-based Del Monte Foods, is now owned by South Korea's Dongwon Industries. The title papers for Pittsburgh-based StarKist went to Dongwon two years ago for $363 million. Dongwon F&B was already the world's largest canned tuna business, but it wanted StarKist as a vehicle to make inroads into the U.S. market.

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At the cannery inspection last Nov. 1-4, FDA found "serious violations" involving StarKist's seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point plan and its production of low-acid canned foods. FDA said both the canned tuna and pouched packed tuna being produced by StarKist on American Samoa are "adulterated."
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FDA said that if StarKist does not promptly correct the violations, it will take further actions, including seizing adulterated products and/or enjoining the company from operating.  It could also refuse admission (to the U.S. mainland) of its tuna under "detention without physical examination."
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Poseidon sollte einen Hausbesuch machen und die ganze Firma ins Meer spülen!
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/03/korean-owned-starkist-tuna-says-no-to-fda/