Maui Seafood, LLC
Outcome
FDA issued a warning letter on December 10, 2025, after a May 2025 inspection of Maui Seafood LLC's Las Vegas ready-to-eat seafood processing facility found Listeria monocytogenes in environmental swabs, serious HACCP monitoring failures, broken equipment dripping onto cooler walls near RTE products for months, and falsified sanitation monitoring records that documented unsatisfactory conditions as satisfactory.
Details
Maui Seafood, LLC — Listeria / HACCP Violations / Falsified Records / FDA Warning Letter (2025)
Outcome: FDA issued a warning letter on December 10, 2025, after inspecting Maui Seafood LLC's Las Vegas, Nevada ready-to-eat seafood processing facility in April–May 2025 and finding: Listeria monocytogenes in environmental swabs, serious HACCP critical limit monitoring failures, a broken condenser pipe dripping onto cooler walls near RTE tuna and salmon for several months, and sanitation monitoring records that falsely documented unsatisfactory conditions as satisfactory.
Maui Seafood, LLC operates a ready-to-eat seafood processing facility at 1741 S. Mojave Rd, Las Vegas, Nevada 89104-4503, which processes and distributes whole raw refrigerated fishery products including tuna and salmon for retail and food service. FDA conducted an inspection from April 28 through May 16, 2025, and issued a formal warning letter on December 10, 2025 (Letter 715844).
Key violations documented in the warning letter included: (1) FDA laboratory analysis of environmental swabs confirmed the presence of Listeria monocytogenes — a human pathogen — in the facility, meaning RTE seafood products were prepared under insanitary conditions; (2) the facility failed to implement HACCP monitoring procedures and frequencies specified in its HACCP plan, including cooler temperature monitoring requirements critical to ensuring cold-chain integrity of RTE seafood products; (3) data logger records were inadequate to confirm continuous temperature monitoring during product transit; (4) a broken outflow pipe from a condenser unit had been dripping onto the wall and floor of a cooler located near RTE seafood products — the facility owner told investigators he had been waiting for replacement parts for several months, indicating the company allowed a documented physical contamination risk to persist rather than implement interim controls; and (5) sanitation monitoring records intentionally marked unsatisfactory physical conditions as satisfactory — a falsification of required food safety records.
Primary Source: Maui Seafood LLC - 715844 - 12/10/2025 | FDA
How Crucible Prevents This
The falsified sanitation records — marking unsatisfactory conditions as satisfactory — is the most serious finding in this letter because it represents an active cover-up of known deficiencies rather than passive neglect. Crucible's immutable DECISIONS log, with session-authenticated entries that cannot be retrospectively altered, eliminates the falsification pathway: each inspection record is written at time of observation and time-stamped, making it structurally impossible to retroactively change a negative finding to positive. The months-long wait for repair parts while a broken pipe dripped onto cooler walls adjacent to RTE products represents a documented equipment failure that should have triggered a corrective action open-item closure requirement before production resumed.
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