Chicken Enchilada with Mole Rice & Beans 14 oz. packaged in a in a Deep Meal tray with…
The Fierro Group Inc. dba Rico Brands recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 13 March 2024 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Firm is recalling enchiladas made with Queso Fresno cheese due to the potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.
The record
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- Product
- Chicken Enchilada with Mole Rice & Beans 14 oz. packaged in a in a Deep Meal tray with Plant Fiber - Film 800.
- Reason for recall
- Firm is recalling enchiladas made with Queso Fresno cheese due to the potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.
- Recalling firm
- The Fierro Group Inc. dba Rico Brands
- Firm location
- Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1030-2024
- Quantity
- Unknown
- Distribution
- Products were distributed to Supermarkets within the state of Utah.
- Initiated
- 7 February 2024
- Reported by FDA
- 13 March 2024
- Terminated
- 3 May 2024
- Firm notified by
- Telephone
- Product codes
- Item Number 65366006015 Lot. 0234 02/13/24 Lot. 0264 02/16/24 Lot. 0304 02/20/24 Lot. 0334 02/23/24. These codes can be found attached to the main label on a white label.
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 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. All 4 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 3 months, from 7 February 2024 to termination on 3 May 2024. 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 FDA published the enforcement report 5 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.
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, grains, flour and pasta and prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 4 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-13 | Cheese Enchiladas with Green sauce 4/pkg 14.5oz packaged in a in a Deep Meal tray Plant Fiber - Film 800. | The Fierro Group Inc. dba Rico Brands | Firm is recalling enchiladas made with Queso Fresno cheese due to the potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2024-03-13 | Cheese Enchiladas with Red sauce 4/pkg 14.5oz packaged in a in a Deep Meal tray Plant Fiber - Film 800. | The Fierro Group Inc. dba Rico Brands | Firm is recalling enchiladas made with Queso Fresno cheese due to the potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2024-03-13 | Chicken Enchilada with Rice & Beans/Green 14 oz. packaged in a in a Deep Meal tray Plant Fiber - Film 800. | The Fierro Group Inc. dba Rico Brands | Firm is recalling enchiladas made with Queso Fresno cheese due to the potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
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 The Fierro Group Inc. dba Rico Brands
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-13 | Cheese Enchiladas with Green sauce 4/pkg 14.5oz packaged in a in a Deep Meal tray Plant Fiber - Film 800. | The Fierro Group Inc. dba Rico Brands | Firm is recalling enchiladas made with Queso Fresno cheese due to the potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2024-03-13 | Cheese Enchiladas with Red sauce 4/pkg 14.5oz packaged in a in a Deep Meal tray Plant Fiber - Film 800. | The Fierro Group Inc. dba Rico Brands | Firm is recalling enchiladas made with Queso Fresno cheese due to the potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2024-03-13 | Chicken Enchilada with Rice & Beans/Green 14 oz. packaged in a in a Deep Meal tray Plant Fiber - Film 800. | The Fierro Group Inc. dba Rico Brands | Firm is recalling enchiladas made with Queso Fresno cheese due to the potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
All 4 records for The Fierro Group Inc. dba Rico Brands
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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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