Bumble Bee Foods, Tri-Union Seafoods Recall Tuna Products after Possible Contamination
While there have been no reported cases of sickness or poisoning as a result of a possible contamination, Bumble Bee Foods and Tri-Union Seafoods are not waiting for something worse to come out of the situation, voluntarily recalling their canned chunk light tuna in stores.
According to Bumble Bee's senior vice president Steve Mavity, via CNN.com, the recalls their company initiated are linked to technical services and corporate quality. "Bumble Bee recalled specific codes of canned Chunk Light Tuna produced in Chicken of the Sea's Georgia production facility, a third-party supplier," he said.
A representative from the Chicken of the Sea added that in one of the routine inspections, their company saw a malfunction in one of the machineries, but it was immediately replaced. As of this posting, the recall involves 31,579 cases of the canned tuna, all of which were produced in February of this year. Accordingly, the possible health risk has something to do with process deviations that happened in a packing facility, which Bumble Bee explicitly provides to be not within their operations. The facility, according to them, isn't owned by the company.
Meanwhile, Tri-Union Seafoods is also making its own recall of another canned tuna, the Chicken of the Sea, saying that there might be a possibility that the product contents have been undercooked as a direct result of the same equipment malfunction. The bran is recalling 2,745 cases with manufacturing dates February 10 and March 16 this year.
But both companies insisted that other than those mentioned recalls, no other production codes and products were subjected to the malfunction, which means there is no reason to include them. Per instruction from the manufacturers, those who may have purchased the products included in the recall will need to refrain from consuming them.
For questions about the recall and for those who seek reimbursement for the purchase of the reportedly contaminated products, they can contact the following numbers:
Bumble Bee Foods: 888-820-1947
Tri-Union Seafoods: 866-600-2681.
