Food FDA Class I Terminated Pathogen contamination
Basil Pesto Bowtie Pasta Salad, packaged in plastic containers with various weights, with UPC 217573-1XXXX (sold at deli service counters) or UPC 217573-2XXXX (sold as Grab-n-Go packages in deli departments), under the banners Kroger, Baker's, City Market, Dillons, Fred Meyer, Fry's, Gerbes, King So
The Kroger Co Published Oct 29, 2025
Risk level
Class IDangerous or defective — could cause serious health problems or death.
Severity score 95/100
What should you do?
- Check whether you have this product, using the lot codes, UPCs, and dates listed below.
- Do not eat, serve, or sell the affected product.
- Return it to the place of purchase for a refund, or throw it away in a sealed bag so people and animals can’t get to it.
- Contact The Kroger Co or your place of purchase with questions, and see the source record below for full details.
Reason for recall
Store-made deli items contain a pasta ingredient that was recalled due to potential Listeria monocytogenes
Hazards
Listeria monocytogenes · primary
Affected products (1)
Basil Pesto Bowtie Pasta Salad, packaged in plastic containers with various weights, with UPC 217573-1XXXX (sold at deli service counters) or UPC 217573-2XXXX (sold as Grab-n-Go packages in deli departments), under the banners Kroger, Baker's, City Market, Dillons, Fred Meyer, Fry's, Gerbes, King Soopers, Payless, Ralphs and Smith's
5,567.4 lbs.
Code info: Sold On: Sep 6 2025 through Oct 2 2025
Affected areas
AlabamaAlaskaArizonaArkansasCaliforniaColoradoGeorgiaIdahoIllinoisIndianaKansasKentuckyLouisianaMichiganMississippiMissouriMontanaNebraskaNevadaNew MexicoOhioOregonSouth CarolinaTennesseeTexasUtahWashingtonWest Virginia
Timeline
- InitiatedSep 26, 2025
- PublishedOct 29, 2025
- TerminatedMar 6, 2026
- Recall number
- H-0094-2026
- Agency
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Country
- US
FDA records come from the openFDA food enforcement-report dataset — the agency's full weekly enforcement list. Most entries are not issued as consumer press releases, so they won't appear on fda.gov/recalls or in a web search. The source record link above resolves this exact recall by its number.