Fresh Creative Foods (FCF) item #404736 Basil Pesto Bowtie Pasta Kit, UPC #13454 38092.
Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 29 October 2025 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Salad Kits are recalled due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.
The record
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- Product
- Fresh Creative Foods (FCF) item #404736 Basil Pesto Bowtie Pasta Kit, UPC #13454 38092. Perishable/Refrigerated product. Net wt. 10.3125lbs. This kit contains 2/3lb. sealed bags of affected Bowtie Pasta and does not contain spinach. Kit is not sold directly to consumers.
- UPC
- 1345438092
- Reason for recall
- Salad Kits are recalled due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.
- Recalling firm
- Reser's Fine Foods, Inc.
- Firm location
- Beaverton, Oregon, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- H-0089-2026
- Quantity
- Item #404736 = 795 cases
- Distribution
- Item #404736 was distributed in AZ, CA, CO, UT, and WA. Item #404637 was distributed in AZ, CA, CO, and TX. Item #404284 was distributed in AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IN, MD, MO, OR, PA, TX, UT, and WA.
- Initiated
- 26 September 2025
- Reported by FDA
- 29 October 2025
- Terminated
- 31 March 2026
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Use by Dates: 10/9/2025 10/10/2025 10/17/2025 10/23/2025 10/27/2025
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 6 months, from 26 September 2025 to termination on 31 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 12 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was about typical 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: California, Colorado, Utah, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, Missouri, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, 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 fresh produce, sauces, dips and condiments and grains, flour and pasta. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-29 | Fresh Creative Foods (FCF) item #404637 Basil Pesto Bowtie Pasta Kit Item V, UPC#13454 38053. Perishable/Refrigerated product. Net wt. 10.5625lbs. This kit contains 2/3lbs. sealed bags of affected Bowtie Pasta, and it is not sold directly to consumers. | Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. | Salad Kits are recalled due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2025-10-29 | Fresh Creative Foods (FCF) item #404284 Smoked Mozzarella Penne Salad Kit, UPC #13454 37904. Perishable/Refrigerated product. Net wt. 13lbs. This kit contains 2/3lbs. sealed bag of affected Penne Pasta and kit is not sold directly to consumers. | Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. | Salad Kits are recalled due to potential contamination with 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 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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