Food FDA Class II Terminated Pathogen contamination
Crab Cakes various sizes sold to food service
Connecticut Crab Company LLC Published Apr 15, 2026
Risk level
Class IIMay cause a temporary or reversible health problem; slight chance of serious harm.
Severity score 65/100
What should you do?
- Check whether you have this product, using the lot codes, UPCs, and dates listed below.
- Do not eat, serve, or sell the affected product.
- Return it to the place of purchase for a refund, or throw it away in a sealed bag so people and animals can’t get to it.
- Contact Connecticut Crab Company LLC or your place of purchase with questions, and see the source record below for full details.
Reason for recall
May be temperature abused, which may result in growth of Clostridium botulinum
Hazards
Clostridium botulinum · primary
Affected products (1)
Crab Cakes various sizes sold to food service
39 boxes or approximately 175lbs of crab cakes
Code info: Production on March 9, 11, 13, 16 & 18 in 2026 Unit Size: Our crabcakes are custom made and go from .5oz up to 5oz per cake 1.5 - Container Description: They are shipped in shrimp boxes that generally weigh between 4-5lbs 1.6 - Total Package Size: They contain from 20 up to 135 crabcakes per box depending on the cake size
Affected areas
New JerseyNew York
Timeline
- InitiatedMar 25, 2026
- PublishedApr 15, 2026
- TerminatedApr 29, 2026
- Recall number
- H-0656-2026
- Agency
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Country
- US
FDA records come from the openFDA food enforcement-report dataset — the agency's full weekly enforcement list. Most entries are not issued as consumer press releases, so they won't appear on fda.gov/recalls or in a web search. The source record link above resolves this exact recall by its number.