Item 404764, KIT EM CHICKEN STREET TACO DP EXPRESS MEAL 6/22 OZ, UPC 7111712500.
Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 27 March 2024 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Listeria monocytogenes. The recalled Cotija cheese was repackaged into finished wholesale and retail RTE products.
The record
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- Product
- Item 404764, KIT EM CHICKEN STREET TACO DP EXPRESS MEAL 6/22 OZ, UPC 7111712500. The following Taco Kits were distributed to consignees with instructions for assembly at retail store kitchen: Item 406987, KIT OP CHICKEN TACO MINI SINGLE SERVE ON PREMISE NO TRAYS 2/2.4925 LB, UPC 1345438444. Item 407012, KIT OP CHICKEN TACO MINI SINGLE SERVE ON PREMISE WITH TRAYS 2/2.4925 LB, UPC 1345438460. Item 404894, KIT OP CHICKEN TACO SINGLE SERVE ON PREMISE NO TRAYS 1/4.9875 LB, UPC 1345438162. Item 404700 KIT OP PREMIUM CHICKEN STREET TACO ON PREMISE WITH TRAYS 2/4.9875 LB, UPC 1345438075. Item 404711, KIT OP STREET TACO CHICKEN ON PREMISE NO TRAY DP 2/4.985 LB, UPC 1345438082. Item 404710, KIT OP STREET TACO CHICKEN ON PREMISE WITH TRAY DP 2/4.985 LB, UPC 1345438080. Item 406581, KIT OP STREET TACO CHICKEN ON PREMISE WITH TRAY HOME CHEF 2/4.985 LB, UPC 4013430435.
- UPC
- 7111712500
- Reason for recall
- Listeria monocytogenes. The recalled Cotija cheese was repackaged into finished wholesale and retail RTE products.
- Recalling firm
- Reser's Fine Foods, Inc.
- Firm location
- Beaverton, Oregon, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1091-2024
- Quantity
- Item 404764 DP Express Meal Kit = 1236 kits; Other Taco Kits = 24,582 kits
- Distribution
- Distributed in CA, CT, FL, ID, IL, MD, MT, NJ, NV, OR, PA, SD, TX, UT, VA, and WA.
- Initiated
- 6 February 2024
- Reported by FDA
- 27 March 2024
- Terminated
- 5 July 2024
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- ***Item 404764 DP Express Meal Kit has the Use By Dates between 12/12/2023 and 03/17/2024 and has the following Lot Codes: 165299 165763 165764 166683 166684 167637 168019 168020 168918 169315 169712 170163 170602 170603 171490 Other Taco Kits have the Use By Dates between 11/29/2023 and 3/21/2024 and have the following Lot Codes: 165227 165228 165292 165316 165317 165318 165369 165753 165755 165757 165774 165782 165783 165784 165834 166178 166228 166231 166234 166250 166252 166345 166352 166572 166670 166672 166673 166674 166675 166702 166705 166706 166779 167082 167127 167169 167171 167172 167173 167185 167191 167248 167548 167549 167551 167603 167605 167612 167614 167616 167674 167676 168010 168011 168013 168030 168039 168040 168093 168109 168413 168458 168462 168463 168477 168478 168487 168489 168549 168856 168857 168908 168910 168911 168930 168931 168937 168939 169012 169109 169303 169307 169308 169309 169310 169337 169338 169393 169596 169703 169708 169717 169721 169722 169723 169861 169862 170150 170154 170155 170157 170172 170174 170181 170183 170245 170590 170593 170595 170597 170613 170619 170620 170678 170948 171052 171053 171056 171059 171061 171075 171081 171083 171129 171254 171346 171477 171481 171483 171503 171513 171567
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 6 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 6 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 6. All 6 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 5 months, from 6 February 2024 to termination on 5 July 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 distribution pattern names 15 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 7 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Maryland, Montana, New Jersey, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington. 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 meat and poultry and prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 6 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 5 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.
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 Reser's Fine Foods, Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 283 other records name this firm.
All 284 records for Reser's Fine Foods, Inc.
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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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