First & Last Tavern Marinara Sauce (tomato & basil) 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 Marinara Sauce (tomato & basil) 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-0335-2026
- 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.
- 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: 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
Clostridium botulinum
Clostridium botulinum recalls are recalls of the process, not of a test result: the organism produces its toxin without oxygen, so a low-acid food in a sealed container that missed its scheduled process is recalled whether or not toxin was ever found.
A preventive controls plan covers a botulism risk 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 113
- Thermally processed low-acid foods in hermetically sealed containers: the scheduled process, its establishment by a competent authority, and the records proving every container received it.
- 21 CFR 108.35
- Emergency permit control: the registration and process filing a low-acid canned food processor must hold before it may operate.
Filed under fresh produce and sauces, dips and condiments. A product can sit in more than one.
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 First & Last Tavern
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | First & Last Tavern Puttanesca Sauce (olives, capers, hot peppers) 26 FL OZ (1 lb, 10 oz) 737g | First & Last Tavern | May be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum | Class II |
| 2025-12-31 | First & Last Tavern Traditional Pasta Sauce (meat flavored) 26 FL OZ (1 lb., 10 oz) 737g | First & Last Tavern | May be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum | Class II |
All 3 records for First & Last Tavern
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21 CFR 113 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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