Item 404852, UPC 71117 12507, Don Pancho Chicken Quesadilla 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 404852, UPC 71117 12507, Don Pancho Chicken Quesadilla Express Meal Kit. Make 3 Quesadilla. Ready in 4 MIN. Net wt. 22.5 oz (1 LB 6.5 OZ) 638g. Case GTIN 10071117125075, Case UPC 7111712507, Don Pancho Chicken Quesadilla Express Meal Kit. 6/22.5oz bags. Distributed by Reser's Fine Foods Inc. Beaverton, OR. www.DONPANCHO.COM.
- UPC
- 7111712507
- 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-0083-2025
- Quantity
- 6933 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: 9/22/2024 9/29/2024 10/12/2024 10/15/2024 10/18/2024 10/19/2024 10/21/2024 10/23/2024 10/24/2024 10/25/2024 10/26/2024 10/31/2024 20240922 20240926 20240927 20240929 20240930 20241012 20241014 20241018 20241019 20241022 20241026 20241028 20241111 20241115 20241118 Batch numbers or Lot numbers: B1731356 B1735949 B1752105 B1752154 B1752157 B1752158 B1752227 B1752230 B1756673 B1756679 B1756681 B1758029 B1758030 B1758031 B1758049 B1758050 B1758539 B1760422 B1760425 B1760464 B1760533 B1760535 B1761786 B1761800 B1761883 B1761884 B1761936 B1761960 B1761989 B1762031 B1763282 B1763332 B1763335 B1763373 B1763374 B1763405 B1763407 B1763409 B1763422 B1763424 B1763427 B1763428 B1763450 B1763451 B1763470 B1763471 B1763480 B1763488 B1763489 B1763500 B1763501 B1763504 B1763506 B1763539 B1763540 B1763541 B1763543 B1763545 B1763559 B1763570 B1763572 B1763577 B1763579 B1763597 B1763701 B1763702 B1763704 B1763713 B1763714 B1763715 B1763716 B1763734 B1763738 B1763740 B1763743 B1763748 B1763796 B1763803 B1763875 B1763876 B1763879 B1763880 B1763882 B1763887 B1763906 B1763912 B1763981 B1763984 B1763986 B1764185 B1764203 B1764227 B1764231 B1764235 B1764256 B1764268 B1764280 B1764285 B1764392 B1764395 B1766173 B1771078 B1771079 B1771089 B1771093 B1771096 B1771103 B1771125 B1771126 B1771166 B1771185 B1771221 240922 240929 241012 241019 241026 240926020 240927020 240930020 241012020 241014020 241018020 241022020 241028020 241111020 241115020
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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