First & Last Tavern Traditional Pasta Sauce (meat flavored) 26 FL OZ (1 lb., 10 oz) 737g

First & Last Tavern recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 31 December 2025 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. May be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum

The record

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Product

First & Last Tavern Traditional Pasta Sauce (meat flavored) 26 FL OZ (1 lb., 10 oz) 737g

Reason for recall

May be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum

Recalling firm

First & Last Tavern

Firm location

Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Ongoing

Recall number

H-0334-2026

Quantity

30 cases

Distribution

CT, MA

Initiated

31 October 2025

Reported by FDA

31 December 2025

Firm notified by

Press Release

Product codes

Expiration/Use By: 09/26

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

• Class II means the FDA judged a remote probability of serious harm, or a probability of temporary or medically reversible harm. 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. 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 3 of them.
• This recall has no termination date on the record, so as published it had not been terminated under 21 CFR 7.55.
• The distribution pattern names 2 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 2 months after the firm began the recall.
• 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, Massachusetts. 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

Filed under meat and poultry, sauces, dips and condiments and grains, flour and pasta. A product can sit in more than one.

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 First & Last Tavern

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.

All 3 records for First & Last Tavern

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