Moroccan Style Lentil Soup, 4 x 8lb pouches, Net wt. 32lb
Request Foods Incorporated recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 30 April 2025 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Potential contamination with foreign material (wood)
The record
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- Product
- Moroccan Style Lentil Soup, 4 x 8lb pouches, Net wt. 32lb
- Reason for recall
- Potential contamination with foreign material (wood)
- Recalling firm
- Request Foods Incorporated
- Firm location
- Holland, Michigan, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0735-2025
- Quantity
- 2094 cases
- Distribution
- IL, MI
- Initiated
- 4 April 2025
- Reported by FDA
- 30 April 2025
- Terminated
- 26 August 2025
- Firm notified by
- Telephone
- Product codes
- Oct 11 2026 MOROCCAN STY LENTIL 19788 01115 RM 4A1 HHMM
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 4 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 4 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 4. 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 4 of them.
- The recall ran for 5 months, from 4 April 2025 to termination on 26 August 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 2 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a prepared meal or sandwich run a median of 6 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Prepared meals concentrate every other category's hazards into one package: they are assembled from many components, handled after any cook step, sold ready to eat, and carry an ingredient list long enough to lose an allergen in.
Named in the distribution pattern: Illinois, Michigan. 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
Foreign material
A foreign material recall means something that is not food was found in food: metal, plastic, glass, wood or insect matter, usually shed by equipment during processing.
A preventive controls plan covers foreign material 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 117.40
- Equipment and utensils: plant equipment designed and maintained so it cannot contaminate food with lubricants, fuel, metal fragments or contaminated water.
- 21 CFR 117.80(c)
- Manufacturing operations: the measures that protect food from contamination during processing, including the effective ones against metal and other extraneous material.
- 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 prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.
Other prepared meals and sandwiches 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 Request Foods Incorporated
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 34 other records name this firm.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-30 | Cuban-Style Black Bean Soup, 4 / 4lb pouches, Net Wt. 16lb | Request Foods Incorporated | Potential contamination with foreign material (wood) | Class II |
| 2025-04-30 | Mexican Street Corn Soup, 4 / 4lb pouches, Net Wt. 16lb | Request Foods Incorporated | Potential contamination with foreign material (wood) | Class II |
| 2025-04-30 | Beecher's Street Corn, 18oz, 8 retail units per case, UPC 782045 115009 | Request Foods Incorporated | Potential contamination with foreign material (wood) | Class II |
| 2018-11-14 | Kashi, Fire Roasted Quinoa Bowl 9.5oz. UPC 18627 10769 Frozen 8, 9.5oz. units per case | Request Foods Incorporated | The firm was notified by their supplier that ingredients used in their products were possibly contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella. | Class II |
| 2018-11-14 | Kashi, Creamy Cashew Noodle Bowl 8oz. UPC 18627 10767 Frozen 8, 8oz. units per case | Request Foods Incorporated | The firm was notified by their supplier that ingredients used in their products were possibly contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella. | Class II |
| 2018-11-14 | PC Presidents Choice Roasted Vegetable Lasagna 1.13kg. UPC 60383 75647 Frozen 12 units per case | Request Foods Incorporated | The firm was notified by their supplier that ingredients used in their products were possibly contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella. | Class II |
| 2018-11-14 | Jenny Craig Butternut Squash Ravioli 7.5oz. UPC 55447 00625 Frozen 30, 7.5oz. units per case | Request Foods Incorporated | The firm was notified by their supplier that ingredients used in their products were possibly contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella. | Class II |
| 2018-11-14 | Kashi, Sweet Potato Quinoa Bowl 9oz. UPC 18627 10547 Frozen 8, 9oz. units per case | Request Foods Incorporated | The firm was notified by their supplier that ingredients used in their products were possibly contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella. | Class II |
| 2018-11-14 | Evol Butternut Squash & Sage Ravioli 18oz. UPC 91627 00776 Frozen 4, 18oz. units per case | Request Foods Incorporated | The firm was notified by their supplier that ingredients used in their products were possibly contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella. | Class II |
| 2018-11-14 | Evol Portabello Goat Cheese Ravioli 18oz UPC 91627 00789 Frozen 6, 18oz. units per case | Request Foods Incorporated | The firm was notified by their supplier that ingredients used in their products were possibly contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella. | Class II |
All 35 records for Request Foods Incorporated
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