Personal Injury Law

Big Boy's Ready To Eat Meals For Kids Are Recalled For Listeria Contamination

By Marler Clark

In the last ten days, two brands of meal kits for kids made for  Big Boy restaurants were prepared; distributed at both wholesale and retail levels ; tested positive for Listeria contamination; and subjected to a Class 1, High Health Risk recall.

All totaled 39,514 pounds of ready-to-eat meal kits, which were found to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) were recalled on Sept. 1st by the Warren, MI-based Big Boy Food Group.

The recalled products include:

Dinolunch Brand:

• 3.6 oz 'DINOLUNCH CARNIVORE HAM & CHEESE' meal kits. Each tray includes ham, cheese, and crackers; a juice drink and Dino cookies. The front of each package bears the establishment number 'EST. 4205' inside the USDA mark of inspection as well as the Use by/Sell by date of '10/24/2009.'
• 3.6 oz 'DINOLUNCH T-REX TURKEY & CHEESE' meal kits. Each tray includes turkey, cheese, and crackers; a juice drink and Dino cookies. The front of each package bears the establishment number 'P- 4205' inside the USDA mark of inspection as well as the Use by/Sell by date of '10/24/2009.'

Each case of the Dinolunch brand meal kits, subject to recall, can be identified by the case code '9237' and contains approximately twelve (12) trays. The products were produced on August 25, 2009 and distributed to wholesale and retail establishments in Texas.  The retail distribution list(s) are available in a PDF file on the FSIS website.

Lunch Buddies Brand:

• 3.6 oz 'Lunch Buddies Ham & Cheese' meal kits. Each tray includes ham, cheese, and crackers; a juice drink and a sweet treat. The front of each package bears the establishment number 'EST. 4205' inside the USDA mark of inspection as well as the Use by/Sell by date of '10/24/2009.'
• 3.6 oz 'Lunch Buddies Turkey & Cheese' meal kits. Each tray includes turkey, cheese, and crackers; a juice drink and a sweet treat. The front of each package bears the establishment number 'P- 4205' inside the USDA mark of inspection as well as the Use by/Sell by date of '10/24/2009.'

Each case of the Lunch Buddies brand meal kits, subject to recall, can be identified by the case code '9237' and contains approximately sixteen (16) trays. The products were produced on August 25, 2009 and distributed to wholesale establishments in Ill., Ind., Ohio, and Wisc. FSIS has no reason to believe that these products are available for consumer purchase as recalled products were distributed only at the wholesale level; so, none of these meal kits would have reached consumers.

Full post as published by Listeria Blog on September 04, 2009 (boomark / email).