BrucePac
Outcome
FSIS issued a Class I recall of approximately 11,765,285 pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry products from BrucePac's Durant, Oklahoma facility after Listeria monocytogenes was detected in routine FSIS testing; products had been distributed to restaurants, schools, and national retailers including Trader Joe's, Kroger, and Walmart.
Details
BrucePac — Listeria Recall, Nearly 12 Million Pounds of RTE Meat (2024)
Outcome: FSIS initiated a Class I recall of approximately 11,765,285 pounds of ready-to-eat chicken and poultry products from BrucePac's Durant, Oklahoma establishment in October 2024 after routine FSIS testing detected Listeria monocytogenes; products were distributed to national retailers, restaurants, schools, and institutional food service customers nationwide with no confirmed illness reports.
BrucePac operates a large FSIS-inspected ready-to-eat meat and poultry processing establishment in Durant, Oklahoma (establishment numbers 51205 / P-51205). The facility produces fully cooked, ready-to-eat chicken, turkey, and other meat products distributed under various brand names and as store-brand or institutional product for major retail chains.
On October 9, 2024, FSIS issued the initial recall notice covering approximately 9,986,245 pounds of RTE products after the agency's routine finished-product testing detected L. monocytogenes. FSIS expanded the recall on October 16, 2024, to add an additional 1,779,040 pounds, bringing the total to approximately 11,765,285 pounds — one of the largest FSIS Listeria recalls in recent years. All affected products had been produced between May 31 and October 8, 2024.
Distribution reached an exceptionally broad cross-section of the food supply: Trader Joe's, Kroger, Wegmans, H-E-B, 7-Eleven, and other national and regional retailers sold implicated products under their house brands. Schools and institutional food service customers also received affected products. FSIS classified the recall as Class I (high health risk) given the documented danger of Listeria monocytogenes in vulnerable populations. No confirmed illness reports were attributed to BrucePac products, distinguishing this from simultaneous Listeria recalls during the same period (Boar's Head, Yu Shang) that resulted in confirmed deaths.
Primary Source: BrucePac Recalls Ready-To-Eat Meat and Poultry Products | FSIS
How Crucible Prevents This
The recall of nearly 12 million pounds of RTE products produced over five months (May 31–October 8, 2024) represents a Listeria control failure that persisted across an entire production season. A documented environmental monitoring review protocol enforced by recurring compliance checkpoints would require the facility to verify that corrective actions from prior positive environmental findings were still effective before resuming production — a process that would have interrupted the contamination cycle before it spanned hundreds of production runs.
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