Item 406581, UPC 40134 30435, Home Chef Kit Street Taco Chicken With Tray, 2/4.985 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 406581, UPC 40134 30435, Home Chef Kit Street Taco Chicken With Tray, 2/4.985 LB. Distributed by Fresh Creative Foods, Vista, CA or by Reser's Fine Foods Inc. Beaverton, OR. Item 406581, UPC 40134 30435, Home Chef Chicken Street Taco Kit With Trays, 2/4.985 LB. Distributed by Reser's Fine Foods Inc. Beaverton, OR.
- UPC
- 4013430435
- 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-0093-2025
- Quantity
- 6793 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: 9/13/2024 9/16/2024 9/20/2024 9/22/2024 9/23/2024 9/30/2024 10/4/2024 10/7/2024 10/11/2024 10/14/2024 10/18/2024 10/23/2024 10/25/2024 10/26/2024 10/28/2024 11/1/2024 11/3/2024 11/4/2024 11/8/2024 11/10/2024 11/16/2024 Batch numbers: B1727208 B1727209 B1727235 B1727238 B1727286 B1727288 B1727304 B1727305 B1727308 B1727310 B1727422 B1727428 B1727431 B1727437 B1728812 B1728813 B1728817 B1728824 B1728834 B1728874 B1728891 B1728893 B1728923 B1734252 B1734254 B1734258 B1734260 B1734262 B1734269 B1739780 B1739782 B1739785 B1739793 B1739796 B1739804 B1739807 B1739818 B1739846 B1739864 B1741068 B1741069 B1741104 B1741106 B1741108 B1741137 B1741138 B1741148 B1741156 B1741162 B1742568 B1742570 B1742589 B1742592 B1742613 B1742709 B1742711 B1742713 B1742716 B1746077 B1746079 B1746089 B1746093 B1751079 B1751087 B1751098 B1751102 B1751119 B1751141 B1751157 B1751248 B1751266 B1751489 B1751490 B1751491 B1751503 B1751507 B1751518 B1751536 B1751544 B1757065 B1757072 B1757082 B1757101 B1757147 B1763512 B1763515 B1763517 B1763520 B1763522 B1765134 B1765168 B1765179 B1765181 B1765189 B1765207 B1766377 B1766382 B1766440 B1766442 B1766443 B1766449 B1766545 B1766546 B1766567 B1766568 B1766569 B1766604 B1766605 B1766667 B1766668 B1766669 B1766689 B1766694 B1771421 B1771431 B1771439 B1771456 B1771460 B1774399 B1774400 B1774401 B1774402 B1774403 B1774412 B1774417 B1774867 B1774868 B1774870 B1774897 B1774899 B1774900 B1778552 B1778662 B1778664 B1778665 B1778667 B1784746 B1784747 B1784780 B1784781 B1784797 B1784798 B1784801 B1787468 B1787470 B1787485 B1794351 B1794366 B1794367 B1794393 B1794413 B1794420
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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