July 20, 2018 — Royal Seafood Baza and Euroline Foods have agreed to stop processing a variety of ready-to-eat foods and certain salt-cured and pickled fish at their jointly owned facility in Staten Island, New York, as part of a consent decree entered this week in a federal court.
The decision was reached following a series of inspections and a warning letter dating back to 2015 by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), according to a press release. Royal Seafood Baza had earlier agreed to a voluntary nationwide recall of its ready-to-eat herring products after inspectors found evidence of listeria while collecting environmental samples, but subsequent inspections revealed that the company had not implemented adequate corrective actions, the agency said.