Florida-based Fresh Express announced a recall of Gourmet Café Chicken Caesar Salad Bowls as the products included items from BrucePac, a company that recently had concerns about listeria.
On Oct. 9, BrucePac pulled nearly 10 million pounds of meat products, citing listeria monocytogenes bacterial contamination risk. The recall was later expanded to include an additional 1.7 million pounds of products for a total of almost 12 million pounds.
“Fresh Express is no longer using chicken ingredients from the ingredient supplier’s (BrucePac) impacted facility and we will not do so until the USDA has inspected and given its approval for the facility to operate,” said an Oct. 26 voluntary recall notice from the company published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)….