Fresh EXPRESS Chopped Kit Caesar Romaine Lettuce TOTAL NET WT. 9.4 OZ (266g) SALAD &…
Fresh Express Incorpated recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 3 May 2023 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. The firm was notified by one of their customers that their product test positive for Listeria monocytogenes.
The record
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- Product
- Fresh EXPRESS Chopped Kit Caesar Romaine Lettuce TOTAL NET WT. 9.4 OZ (266g) SALAD & TOPPINGS: NET WT. 6.9 OZ (196g) DRESSING 2.5 fl. oz. (74 mL)/NET WT 2.5 oz. (71g) fresh express incorporated P.O. BOX 80599, SALINAS, CA 93912 UPC 0 71279 30919 4
- UPC
- 071279309194
- Reason for recall
- The firm was notified by one of their customers that their product test positive for Listeria monocytogenes.
- Recalling firm
- Fresh Express Incorpated
- Firm location
- Windermere, Florida, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0753-2023
- Quantity
- 3,333cs/6/9.4oz bags
- Distribution
- Product was shipped to the following states: FL, GA, NC, SC, VA
- Initiated
- 7 April 2023
- Reported by FDA
- 3 May 2023
- Terminated
- 17 December 2025
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- G075/ 04/02/23
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. All 3 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 2.7 years, from 7 April 2023 to termination on 17 December 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 4 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Fresh produce is the category where contamination arrives before the facility does: irrigation water, soil amendments and field workers are the routes, and nothing downstream of the farm is a kill step for a product eaten raw.
Named in the distribution pattern: Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia. 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 fresh produce and sauces, dips and condiments. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 3 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 2 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-03 | PREMIUM MAKOTO HONEY GINGER SALAD KIT TOTAL NET WT 8.75 OZ (248g) DRESSING 2.03 FL OZ (60 mL) SALAD & TOPPING 6.5 OZ (184g) DISTRIBUTED BY PUBLIX SUPER MARKETS, INC., LAKELAND, FL 33802 UPC 0 41415 18386 5 | Fresh Express Incorpated | The firm was notified by one of their customers that their product test positive for Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2023-05-03 | Fresh Express Chopped Kit Chipotle Cheddar TOTAL NET WT. 11.3 oz (320G) SALAD TOPPINGS NET WT 9.1 oz (258Gg) DRESSING 2.3 fl. oz. (68 mL)/NET WT 2.2oz (62g) FRESH EXPRESS INCORPORATED P.O. BOX 80599, SALINAS, CA 93912 UPC 0 71279 30604 9 | Fresh Express Incorpated | The firm was notified by one of their customers that their product test positive for Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
Other fresh produce 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 Fresh Express Incorpated
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 16 other records name this firm.
All 17 records for Fresh Express Incorpated
All 2023 recalls · All FDA food recall data
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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