Fresh & Ready Foods LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 11 June 2025 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Listeria Monocytogenes detected on food contact surfaces in Ready To Eat sandwich manufacturer facility.
The record
Every field below is published by the FDA in the openFDA food enforcement database. Check the FDA notice before acting on any recall: this page is a reading of the public record, not a substitute for it.
Product was distributed across the Southwest (CA, NV, AZ and WA) See attached "All Consignees" labeled file. Product was distributed to Government (Military) facilities.
Initiated
10 May 2025
Reported by FDA
11 June 2025
Terminated
24 March 2026
Firm notified by
Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes
Item Number: 1-FRSLBPS002
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 86 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 86 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 86. 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 86 of them.
The recall ran for 10 months, from 10 May 2025 to termination on 24 March 2026. 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 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of a sauce, dip or condiment run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Sauces and dips sit at the intersection of the acidified foods rule and the allergen rule: an equilibrium pH above 4.6 turns a shelf-stable product into a botulism risk, and the ingredient list is long enough that an allergen is easy to lose.
Named in the distribution pattern: Nevada, Arizona. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
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.
Other sauces, dips and condiments 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.
Raw breaded chicken patties were inadvertently used in the ready to eat Burger Chicken Fillet sandwich. Raw breaded chicken patties pose a risk of foodborne illness due to the potential presence of Salmonella.
Raw breaded chicken patties were inadvertently used in the ready to eat Burger Chicken Deluxe With Bacon sandwich. Raw breaded chicken patties pose a risk of foodborne illness due to the potential presence of Salmonella.
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.
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.
