Item 404710, UPC 13454 38080, Chicken Street Taco Kit with Trays, 4.985 lb.
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 404710, UPC 13454 38080, Chicken Street Taco Kit with Trays, 4.985 lb. Item 13454 38080 Chicken Street Taco Kit with Trays, 2/4.985 lb. bags per case. Distributed by Fresh Creative Foods, Vista, CA or Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. Beaverton, OR.
- UPC
- 1345438080
- 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-0085-2025
- Quantity
- 2239 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 9/23/2024 9/29/2024 10/6/2024 10/13/2024 10/19/2024 10/26/2024 11/2/2024 11/8/2024 20240923 20240928 20241013 20241015 20241019 20241025 20241030 20241102 20241109 20241116 20241121 Batch numbers or Lot numbers: B1728774 B1728775 B1728778 B1728784 B1728796 B1738640 B1738833 B1738839 B1738848 B1738866 B1738881 B1738973 B1742404 B1742436 B1742439 B1742471 B1742565 B1750392 B1750397 B1750412 B1750422 B1750441 B1750443 B1750461 B1759742 B1759803 B1759812 B1759814 B1765752 B1765782 B1765806 B1771844 B1771845 B1780014 B1780025 B1780058 B1780076 240923020 240928020 241013020 241015020 241019020 241025020 241030020 241102020 241109020 241116020 241121020
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. 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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