Sprouts Farmers Market, along with Rizo-Lopez Foods Inc. and Fresh Creations Foods, have recalled all Chicken Street Taco Meal Kit Units due to the potential contamination of Listeria monocytogenes, according to the U.S Food and Drug Administration or FDA.
The impacted meals and kits include crema cup which contain a recalled cheese ingredient from supplier Rizo-Lopez.
The recalled Chicken Street Taco Meal Kit has the UPC 205916414990 and the Best by Date 11/29/2023-3/4/2024. They were sold in Sprouts stores in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee.
The multi-year, multistate outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections are linked to queso fresco and cotija cheeses manufactured by Modesto, California -based Rizo Lopez, as per the CDC and FDA information.
Rizo-Lopez recently had called back its various products after they were linked to the ongoing Listeria outbreak.
Listeria monocytogenes is an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.
Healthy individuals may suffer short term symptoms like high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. But the same organism can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
So far, no reports of illnesses have been reported for the impacted products.
The agency is urging customers who have purchased the impacted products to return them to the place of purchase for a full refund.
Following Rizo-Lopez recall, many other companies had called back their products, which contain tainted cheese and other ingredients supplied by Rizo Lopez.
Fresh Creative Foods, a division of Reser's Fine Foods, Inc., last week recalled certain cremas, everything sauces, cilantro cotija dressing, poblano Caesar dressing, cilantro dressing and one taco kit, all made with Rizo Lopez cheese.
Stater Bros. Markets' Chicken Street Taco Kits, Save Mart Companies' Chicken Street Taco Kits and The Perfect Bite Co's Mexican Style Street corn bite were also recalled last week as they include ingredients produced by RLF.
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