From Harrisburg, Pennsylvannia, Gorton’s Inc. recalled about 1,000 cases of frozen fish in 10 states Friday after confirming a Pennsylvania customer found pills in her food.
Gorton’s said it ordered the recall as a precaution while a laboratory works to determine the nature of the pills. Those tests should be complete early next week.
“Obviously product alteration is a very serious matter,” said Jud Reis, vice president of marketing for the company, based in Gloucester, Massachusetts “We are conducting a full investigation into the source of the problem.”
Tracy Rowan of New Freedom, Pennsylvania, called police after she bit into one of the pills Sunday and found another on her daughter’s plate. On Friday, Reis said the material was some sort of pill, not compressed batter or bread crumbs.
Rowan described the pills as beige and aspirin size.
“It’s kind of frightening to not only find something in your mouth, a foreign object,” Rowan said Friday. “But then basically my heart stopped when my daughter said, ‘I have one in my mouth, too,’ and pulled it out.”
Rowan, her daughter and her 10 year old son were checked in an emergency room, then reported the incident to local police. They haven’t gotten sick, and Reis said the company knows of no other incidents.
Rowan said her daughter cooked the food and was adamant she did not alter the fillets.
The recall is for Gorton’s 6 Crispy Battered Fish Fillets, 11.4 ounces. The UPC Code is No. 44400157770, with a date code of 7289G1 and a “best if used by date of April 2009.”
The fish was sent to nine other states: Alabama, Delaware, California, Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
Consumers who purchased the fish can call Gorton’s at 1~800~896~9479.
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Here is a case of someone pulling a prank and tons of food has been throw way…food that could have feed the homeless or the elderly. Many people, children included, go to bed hungry every night, here in AMERICA. WHAT A WASTE!
~The Baby Boomer Queen~
March 1, 2008 at 12:29 pm
another reason to stay away from processed foods.
real fish doesn’t come with such surprises inside…
March 1, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Or chemicals!
Good point, Adam!
~The Baby Boomer Queen~
March 2, 2008 at 12:48 am
You’ve obviously never fished in the Mississippi Adam! :S
March 2, 2008 at 12:55 am
RANT # 100,000,000
There are many lakes streams and even areas of the ocean that coorporate America has poisoned with their by products and wastes…and our government has allowed them to do so with payoffs and benifits…be careful who you vote for. Corruption starts at your local level/area.
Living in Florida, I do not have as many issues as those of you who live in central America…
I try not to eat processed food. I do not concider it healthy.
Southern smiles and world peace,
Sharon
~The Baby Boomer Queen~
October 25, 2009 at 12:24 pm
I purchased some Gordon’s premium flounder fish fillets today, cooked them as instructed on the box. They tasted awful.Is there no one that can make a fish fillet made truely from fish, instead of parts of fish?? I will never buy their product again.The picture on the box makes them inviting….but am learning that the picture NEVER really looks like the products that are INSIDE the box.For Gorden’s..the upc# is 044400151108. Ya lost a customer today…