Blessing Brand Wild White EZ Peel Shrimp, 16/20 CT. 4 x 5 lbs cartons. The product is bagged in 5 lbs clear

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Blessing Brand Wild White EZ Peel Shrimp, 16/20 CT. 4 x 5 lbs cartons. The product is bagged in 5 lbs clear plastic bags, the only label iss on the master carton. The product is sold in a seafood retail case. Product labeled as:"WILD WHITE EZ PEEL SHRIMP 16/20 CT WILD CAUGHT PRODUCT OF USA CHEM FREE INGREDIENTS: Shrimp, SaltPACKED BY: BLESSINGS, INC.. Blessing Seafood, Inc. · reported 2013-06-19

Terminated This recall has been closed out by the agency.

Reason for recall: Blessing Seafood, Inc. is voluntarily recalling one lot of Blessing Inc. Wild White EZ Peel Shrimp due to undeclared sulfites.
Classification: Class I
Recall initiated: 2013-05-24
Reported by the agency: 2013-06-19
Closed out (terminated): 2013-07-30
Recalling firm: Blessing Seafood, Inc.
Tucson, AZ
United States
This is the firm that issued the recall — commonly a distributor or processor. It is not the origin of contamination.
Distribution (the agency's own words): The 16-20 EZ Peel Shrimp was distributed by Perishable Distributors of Iowa (PDI) and sold from February 12 to May 23, 2013 at the seafood display counters in the retail markets seafood section of Hy-Vee stores located in eight states: Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Illinois, Missouri, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and at Cedar Valley Fish Market in Waterloo, Iowa.
States we parsed from that text: IA IL KS MN MO NE SD WI
The agency named these states. Parse method explicit_state_list, confidence high.
Food category: Fish & seafoodderived
Assigned by a reviewed keyword rulebook over the product description, not by the agency.
Recall type: Voluntary: Firm initiated
Recall number: F-1528-2013

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