FCF Item 404885, Gyro Kit No Trays. Each box consists of 2/5.25lbs. packages.
Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 8 January 2025 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Salmonella. Item 404885, Gyro Kit No Trays contains implicated cucumber in the tzatziki sauce cup.
The record
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Product
FCF Item 404885, Gyro Kit No Trays. Each box consists of 2/5.25lbs. packages. UPC 0 13454 38158. Distributed by Fresh Creative Foods, Vista CA. Each kit consists of 8 bags of Traditional Pita Bread, 2/32oz. bags of Gyro Slices, 2 Sleeves of 4/2oz. cups premium Tzatziki sauce, 2 sleeves of 4/2oz. cups Fire Feta sauce, and label #5108 Gyro on Premise. This product is sold to consignees for further assemble/repack and each 5.25lbs. tray is not sold directly to consumers.
UPC
01345438158
Reason for recall
Salmonella. Item 404885, Gyro Kit No Trays contains implicated cucumber in the tzatziki sauce cup.
Distributed in AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, LA, MD, MN, MO, NC, NY, OH, OK, TX, UT and WY.
Initiated
6 December 2024
Reported by FDA
8 January 2025
Terminated
26 February 2025
Firm notified by
Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes
Kit has Use By date of 1/2/2025. Batch B1842582
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
Class I means the FDA judged a reasonable probability that the product would cause serious health consequences or death. 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 3 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 3 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 3. 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 3 of them.
The recall ran for 3 months, from 6 December 2024 to termination on 26 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 18 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of cheese run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Cheese dominates Listeria recalls among dairy products because soft and semi-soft varieties hold enough moisture for the organism to grow at refrigeration temperature, and because most are eaten without any further cooking step.
Salmonella is a bacterium that survives in low-moisture foods for months, which is why it appears in recalls of products that carry no water for it to grow in: nut butters, spices, flour and dry pet food.
A preventive controls plan covers Salmonella 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)(1)
Process controls: the controls that apply a treatment, such as a validated kill step, at the point where it reduces the hazard to a safe level.
21 CFR 117 subpart G
Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
21 CFR 117.165(a)(2)
Product testing: testing as a verification activity, appropriate to the facility, the food and the nature of the preventive control.
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.
Tuna Salad products are recalled due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes because products containing Newly Weds Foods recalled Japanese Style Breadcrumbs.
Tuna Salad products are recalled due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes because products containing Newly Weds Foods recalled Japanese Style Breadcrumbs.
Tuna Salad products are recalled due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes because products containing Newly Weds Foods recalled Japanese Style Breadcrumbs.
Tuna Salad products are recalled due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes because products containing Newly Weds Foods recalled Japanese Style Breadcrumbs.
Tuna Salad products are recalled due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes because products containing Newly Weds Foods recalled Japanese Style Breadcrumbs.
Tuna Salad products are recalled due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes because products containing Newly Weds Foods recalled Japanese Style Breadcrumbs.
21 CFR 117.135(c)(1) 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.
Recall records come from the openFDA food enforcement API, published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain. Krolda adds the hazard classification and the clause mapping; neither is an FDA determination. Always check the FDA notice before acting on a recall.
