Item 407120, UPC 13454 38495, Bistro 28 Chicken Street Tacos Express Meal Kit.
Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 6 November 2024 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Meal kits contain cooked chicken which was recalled due to contamination with Listeria monocytogenes
The record
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- Product
- Item 407120, UPC 13454 38495, Bistro 28 Chicken Street Tacos Express Meal Kit. Made 6 Tacos. Ready in 3 MIN. Net wt. 22 oz (1 LB 6 OZ) 624g. Distributed by Fresh Creative Foods, Vista, CA. Case GTIN 10013454384951, Case UPC 13454 38495, Bistro 28 Chicken Street Tacos Express Meal Kit. 4/22oz. bags.
- UPC
- 1345438495
- Reason for recall
- Meal kits contain cooked chicken which was recalled due to contamination with Listeria monocytogenes
- Recalling firm
- Reser's Fine Foods, Inc.
- Firm location
- Beaverton, Oregon, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0081-2025
- Quantity
- 2880 cases
- Distribution
- The firm distributed meal kits directly in AL, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MO, NE, NY, NC, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WY.
- Initiated
- 10 October 2024
- Reported by FDA
- 6 November 2024
- Terminated
- 12 February 2025
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Use By Dates: 9/20/2024 9/23/2024 9/29/2024 10/4/2024 10/6/2024 10/11/2024 10/13/2024 10/18/2024 10/19/2024 10/24/2024 10/26/2024 10/31/2024 11/2/2024 11/9/2024 11/10/2024 20241110 Batch numbers or Lot numbers: B1727743 B1727816 B1727819 B1734303 B1736242 B1736267 B1736274 B1736527 B1736553 B1739012 B1741212 B1741235 B1742230 B1742281 B1749322 B1750411 B1750493 B1750503 B1751371 B1751379 B1751405 B1751406 B1757632 B1758386 B1758738 B1758807 B1758820 B1764601 B1766576 B1766577 B1766647 B1766648 B1766650 B1770591 B1773667 B1773669 B1773692 B1773787 B1773788 B1773802 B1781248 B1781251 B1781259 B1781318 B1781401 B1781420 B1781422 B1786463 B1786471 B1786500 B1786626 B1786629 B1788471 B1788494 B1788495 B1788501 241110
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class II means the FDA judged a remote probability of serious harm, or a probability of temporary or medically reversible harm. The class is assigned by an agency health hazard evaluation under 21 CFR 7.41, not by the firm.
- The firm started this recall itself. Most FDA food recalls are voluntary, and a recall is a food safety plan working rather than failing. The circumstances in which the agency asks for one instead are set out in 21 CFR 7.45.
- This is one of 18 records covering the same recall event. The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so a recall of a product line appears here many times. Counting these records as 18 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 18. Every product code in this event is listed together on the record that covers the whole recall, which is the page a search engine is pointed to for all 18 of them.
- The recall ran for 4 months, from 10 October 2024 to termination on 12 February 2025. Termination means the agency judged that all reasonable effort had been made, under 21 CFR 7.55, and it says nothing about whether product remained in circulation.
- The distribution pattern names 29 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of meat or poultry run a median of 8 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Most meat and poultry is regulated by USDA FSIS rather than the FDA, so a product appearing in this FDA dataset is usually a closed-faced sandwich, a product with meat as a minor ingredient, or a food FSIS does not claim.
Named in the distribution pattern: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
What this recall was for
Listeria monocytogenes
Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium that grows at refrigeration temperature, which is why it dominates recalls of ready-to-eat foods that are never cooked again before they are eaten.
A preventive controls plan covers Listeria contamination under the clauses below. This is where the control belongs, not a finding against any firm named on this page: a recall record states a reason, and most of these recalls were initiated by the firm itself.
- 21 CFR 117.135(c)(3)
- Sanitation controls: the controls on cleaning food-contact surfaces and on preventing cross-contact and cross-contamination from insanitary objects, people and equipment.
- 21 CFR 117.165(a)(3)
- Environmental monitoring: testing the processing environment for an environmental pathogen, required when a ready-to-eat food is exposed to the environment before packaging.
- 21 CFR 117.150
- Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.
Filed under meat and poultry and prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.
Other meat and poultry recalls for the same reason
These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food, recalled for a hazard this record also names. Unlike the firm’s own records below, they come from different companies, which is what makes them a pattern rather than a history.
Other records from Reser's Fine Foods, Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 283 other records name this firm.
All 284 records for Reser's Fine Foods, Inc.
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21 CFR 117.135(c)(3) is the clause behind this recall, and it is one somebody has to produce evidence for at their next audit. Krolda maps supplier documents to the clause they satisfy in FSSC 22000, IFS Food and 21 CFR 117, and routes the corrective action when the evidence is missing.
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