Item 404856, UPC 71117 12506, Don Pancho Creamy Green Chile Chicken Enchilada Express…
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 404856, UPC 71117 12506, Don Pancho Creamy Green Chile Chicken Enchilada Express Meal Kit. Made 6 Enchiladas . Ready in 4 MIN. Net wt. 27 oz (1 LB 11 OZ) 765g. There are 6 packages per case. Distributed by Reser's Fine Foods Inc. Beaverton, OR. www.DONPANCHO.COM.
- UPC
- 7111712506
- 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-0082-2025
- Quantity
- 4179 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 10/4/2024 10/11/2024 10/14/2024 10/20/2024 10/22/2024 10/23/2024 10/24/2024 10/25/2024 11/1/2024 11/7/2024 Batch numbers: B1726157 B1741066 B1749117 B1754368 B1754414 B1754448 B1754450 B1754476 B1755132 B1755133 B1755141 B1755147 B1755178 B1755182 B1755197 B1755201 B1760601 B1760604 B1760612 B1760635 B1762592 B1762622 B1762623 B1762625 B1762630 B1762643 B1762674 B1762676 B1762687 B1762767 B1762769 B1762790 B1762791 B1762806 B1762826 B1762828 B1762838 B1762842 B1762860 B1762877 B1762880 B1762934 B1762935 B1762967 B1762971 B1762986 B1763000 B1763003 B1763007 B1763077 B1763078 B1763136 B1763137 B1763138 B1763164 B1763165 B1763219 B1763221 B1763222 B1763254 B1763255 B1763262 B1763601 B1763609 B1763610 B1763631 B1763632 B1763633 B1763634 B1763650 B1763651 B1763652 B1763653 B1763654 B1763655 B1763664 B1763665 B1763666 B1763667 B1763668 B1763669 B1763670 B1763671 B1763672 B1763682 B1763684 B1763685 B1763688 B1763689 B1763694 B1764408 B1764455 B1764456 B1764458 B1764517 B1764522 B1765665 B1765668 B1770697 B1770699 B1770709 B1770724 B1770779 B1770780 B1770784 B1770786 B1770810 B1770958 B1778289
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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