Smoked salmon, halibut and trout sold in 6 states are recalled over possible Listeria

A three-variety pack of cold smoked fish, salmon, halibut and trout, has been recalled because it may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The Brooklyn distributor Krasnyi Oktyabr Inc. announced the recall on Oct. 9, 2026, and the FDA posted it the same day. The 8-ounce Starfish Seafood Trio was distributed in New York, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, North Carolina and South Carolina. No illnesses have been reported to date, according to the company’s notice.

The Starfish Seafood Trio pack and its lot code

The notice states the product originated in Latvia. Krasnyi Oktyabr, in Brooklyn, is a wholesale distributor and did not make the fish, which places the firm between the foreign producer and the shops that stock it.

The company announcement posted by the FDA describes a cold smoked seafood product sold under the Starfish brand in vacuum-sealed plastic, 8 ounces (227 grams) per package, with three varieties in the one pack: salmon, halibut and trout. The recalled lot is D139149161-153, and the expiration date printed on it is 12/01/2027. No UPC is given in the notice. The printed date sits more than 13 months after the recall announcement, so the lot is well inside its stated shelf life, and the date by itself offers no reassurance that a pack at the back of a refrigerator has aged out of risk. Lot code and expiration date are the two identifiers the notice supplies for matching a pack against the recall, and both have to line up with the figures printed here.

New York to South Carolina, six states by name

The distribution list in the notice reads New York, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, North Carolina and South Carolina. It does not name stores, restaurants or cities within those states, and the notice gives no unit count, so the size of the shipment is not public. Anyone in those six states with a pack in the refrigerator can compare the lot code and the expiration date against the figures above.

The recalled quantity matters less than the format, a refrigerated, ready-to-eat product of the kind the FDA’s Listeria guidance singles out below.

A state sample and a distributor’s response

The potential contamination was identified by the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, according to the FDA-posted notice, rather than by a patient report. The company’s wording is cautious: the product has the “potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.” The notice does not report a positive test result or give a laboratory finding, nor does it record where the state sampled the product at a warehouse, a store or a port of entry, so the origin of the finding is a gap the public record leaves open.

Krasnyi Oktyabr says it has notified affected customers, asked them to stop selling and distributing the product, to identify remaining inventory and to notify their own customers as appropriate. It states that it is cooperating with the New York agency and the FDA. People who bought the pack are urged not to eat it and to return it to the place of purchase for a full refund. The company’s phone line, (718) 858-6720, answers Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern, and the FDA’s line is 1-888-INFO-FDA.

The recall is not linked in the notice to any outbreak. The FDA’s table of outbreak investigations, as read on Oct. 10, lists no smoked-fish entry, and the open Listeria rows on it, including a 44-case cluster, show their product as “Not yet identified.”

Listeria in refrigerated smoked fish

The FDA’s Listeria page notes that past U.S. outbreaks have been linked to “raw or smoked fish and other seafood,” and that the bacterium “can survive and grow even under refrigeration.” Ready-to-eat refrigerated foods that carry it give it more time to multiply the longer they sit in the refrigerator, and freezing does not eliminate it.

The recall notice itself says the organism can cause serious or fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people and those with weakened immune systems, and can cause miscarriages and stillbirths in pregnant women. The CDC’s Listeria overview names pregnant women, newborns, anyone over 65 and anyone whose immune defenses are weakened as the higher-risk groups, and estimates 1,250 infections and 172 deaths a year in the United States. Listeriosis symptoms in pregnancy may be mild or unnoticed, per the FDA, which is why the pregnancy warning appears in a recall with no reported illness.

The CDC’s Listeria outbreaks page, as read for this report, carried no 2026 notice tied to this fish. The recall stands, as of the Oct. 9 posting, as a precaution built on a New York state finding, with lot D139149161-153 as its one identified batch.

This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.

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