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FSIS Releases List of Retailers Who Got Burritos From Windsor Foods

By Marler Clark

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Tuesday published a list of retailers that might have received one of the 126 cases of Listeria- tainted burritos.

Riverside, CA-based Windsor Foods recalled the 2,268 pounds of 'Butcher Boy Red Beef & Bean Burritos' Sept. 11th.

Under a new policy for Class I, High Health Risk recalls, FSIS is suppose to provide the public with lists of retailers most likely to be selling the recalled product.

This time it took FSIS four days to produce the list. It contains the names and locations of 143 convenience stores in seven states that may be selling the 9,072 four-ounce burritos. Most are in Texas (92) and Oklahoma (28). Others are in Iowa (11); Kansas (7); North Dakota (3) and one each in New Mexico and Minnesota.

The FSIS offers the list as a PDF file.

The bad burritos were made on Aug. 3, 2009, and then shipped to a storage center in Minnesota. Windsor Foods does a brisk business selling impulse food items to 'C-stores.'

Convenience stores purchase burritos by the case. Each 18-pound case contains 72 burritos. Each case will have a Windsor's establishment number ("EST. 1905) within the USDA inspection mark, a package code of "1219215," and a case code of "2080001." The cases are also stamped "Keep Frozen."

Convenience stores, however, do not typically sell beef and bean burritos by the case.

Customers buy them one or two at time. Of the markings, only the case code is printed on the individual burrito.

No illnesses have yet been associated with the recall and the Windsor Foods discovered the Listeria contamination on its own.

Full post as published by Listeria Blog on September 16, 2009 (boomark / email).