US Food Recall Atlas

A single recall record, as the agency published it.

Recall mapAll recalls → 119-2016

Ruiz Food Products, Inc. Recalls Beef and Cheese Tortilla Products Due to Possible Foreign Matter Contamination Ruiz Food Products, Inc. · reported 2016-12-21

Closed Recall The agency has not recorded this recall as closed out.

Reason for recall
Product Contamination
Classification
Class II
Recall initiated
not reported
Reported by the agency
2016-12-21
Closed out (terminated)
not reported
Recalling firm
Ruiz Food Products, Inc.
not reported

This is the firm that issued the recall — commonly a distributor or processor. It is not the origin of contamination.

Distribution (the agency's own words)
Arkansas; Illinois; Indiana; Iowa; Kentucky; Maryland; Michigan; North Carolina; Oklahoma; Pennsylvania; Texas; Wisconsin
States we parsed from that text
AR IA IL IN KY MD MI NC OK PA TX WI

The agency named these states. Parse method explicit_state_list, confidence high.

Food category
Bakery Dairy Meat & poultryderived

Assigned by a reviewed keyword rulebook over the product description, not by the agency.

Recall type
not reported
Recall number
119-2016

This page reproduces a record published by the US Food and Drug Administration. It is not real-time: recalls typically appear in FDA's Enforcement Report weeks after they begin — a median of 40 days, see publication lag. For current food safety information consult FDA and USDA FSIS directly.