Tio Francisco Panela 14 oz
Food recall F-0921-2024. Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on Feb 7, 2024.
- FDA Class I
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The short answer
Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on Feb 7, 2024. Copied from openFDA on Oct 20, 2026.
- Class I FDA’s most serious class (needs attention)
- Ongoing its status, in FDA’s file
- 20 states named in where it went
Every line below is in FDA’s own words, with its source beside it. FDA’s terms are explained in FDA’s own words.
How serious is it, by FDA’s class?
Class I, the most serious of FDA’s three classes.
“Dangerous or defective products that predictably could cause serious health problems or death. Examples include: food found to contain botulinum toxin, food with undeclared allergens, a label mix-up on a lifesaving drug, or a defective artificial heart valve.”
openFDA, in plain words, its enforcement report fields.
“Class I is a situation in which there is a reasonable probability that the use of, or exposure to, a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.”
FDA’s rule, 21 CFR 7.3(m)(1), eCFR.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
What’s wrong with it?
Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Which ones are recalled?
Tio Francisco Panela 14 oz. UPC 7-27242-00550-0 Food City Panela 16 oz. Tio Francisco, San Carlos, Dos Ranchitos, La Ordena, Campesino Panela Available to consumers at retail deli counters in various sizes Tio Francisco Panela Barra Available to consumers at retail deli counters in various sizes. Panela Regular and Barra (Bulk)
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Codes to check against yours
All dates through 04/02/2024 Panela Regular and Barra (bulk) PLU Batch ID 12240 2C-23335 12350 2C-23335 12350 3C-23335 350 1C-23335 350 2C-23335 350 1B-23336 50350 3C-23338 26350 2C-23339 26350 3B-23339 350 1C-23339 350 2C-23339 50350…
Every code shown here, 1,756 characters
All dates through 04/02/2024 Panela Regular and Barra (bulk) PLU Batch ID 12240 2C-23335 12350 2C-23335 12350 3C-23335 350 1C-23335 350 2C-23335 350 1B-23336 50350 3C-23338 26350 2C-23339 26350 3B-23339 350 1C-23339 350 2C-23339 50350 3B-23339 351 2AW-23340 350 2C-23340 351 4AW-23341 56351 4AW-23341 350 1C-23342 350 2C-23342 12240 3C-23345 12350 3C-23345 350 3C-23345 26350 2C-23346 350 1C-23346 350 2C-23346 350 3C-23346 50350 3C-23346 351 4AW-23347 351 3AW-23348 56351 3AW-23348 350 1C-23349 350 2D-23349 350 3D-23349 56350 1C-23349 12240 1C-23350 12350 1C-23350 350 2D-23350 350 3D-23350 350 3C-23352 26350 1C-23353 350 1C-23353 350 2C-23353 350 3C-23353 351 1AW-23354 12240 1C-23354 12350 1C-23354 50350 1C-23354 56350 1C-23354 351 3AW-23355 56351 3AW-23355 350 1B-23355 350 1B-23356 350 3C-23360 50350 3C-23360 26350 3C-23361 350 2C-23361 350 3C-23361 350 3C-23362 56350 3C-23362 351 3AW-23363 56351 3AW-23363 350 1B-23363 12240 1B-23364 12350 1B-23364 350 1B-23364 350 2D-23364 350 3D-23364 350 2C-24003 350 3C-24003 50350 1C-24003 56350 2C-24003 351 3AW-24004 351 3AW-24005 56351 3AW-24005 12240 2B-24006 12350 2B-24006 350 2B-24006 350 3B-24006 26350 1C-24008 350 2C-24008 350 3C-24008 350 2C-24010 350 3C-24010 351 4AW-24011 56351 4AW-24011 12240 2B-24012 12350 2B-24012 350 3B-24012 26350 3B-24015 350 2C-24015 350 3B-24015 56350 3B-24015 351 4AW-24018 351 4AW-24019 56351 4AW-24019 12240 2C-24020 12350 2C-24020 350 2C-24020 350 3C-24020 50350 2C-24020 26350 2C-24023 350 1C-24023 350 2C-24023 351 1AW-24026 12240 2C-24027 12350 2C-24027 350 2C-24027 350 1B-24029 26350 2C-24030 350 1D-24030 350 2C-24030 50350 3C-24030 56350 1D-24030 351 4AW-24031 350 1C-24032 350 2C-24032 12240 2C-24033 12350 2C-24033 350 1D-24033 350 2C-24033 350 3C-24033
Copied exactly as FDA lists them: lot and serial numbers, dates and other codes on the product or its label.
Barcodes and drug codes
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UPC
727242005500
As FDA’s description and codes give them; the UPCs written as digits only.
Where did it go?
FDA’s words for the “general area of initial distribution”: where the firm first shipped it.
U.S. distribution to the following: AR, AZ, BC, CA, CO, FL, GA, IA, IL, KS, MD, NC,NJ, NV, NY, OR, RI, TX, UT, VA, WA, W No foreign distribution.
The states and territories these words name
20 states and territories.
Every one of them
- Arkansas
- Arizona
- California
- Colorado
- Florida
- Georgia
- Iowa
- Illinois
- Kansas
- Maryland
- North Carolina
- New Jersey
- Nevada
- New York
- Oregon
- Rhode Island
- Texas
- Utah
- Virginia
- Washington
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Is it still going on?
Ongoing, in FDA’s file.
“A recall which is currently in progress.”
openFDA, on “On-Going”, its enforcement report fields.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
- The firm began the recall on Jan 11, 2024.
- FDA classified it on Feb 23, 2024.
- FDA’s Enforcement Report published it on Feb 7, 2024.
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Who is recalling it?
- Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc. dba Don Francisco Cheese, of Modesto, CA.
- Who began it, in FDA’s words: Voluntary: Firm initiated.
- How the firm first told its customers: Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit.
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
What this record can’t tell you
- Whether your own one is affected: compare the codes, dates and numbers above with yours. When unsure, ask the firm or the store.
- Where it went after the firm’s first shipments. FDA’s words cover the firm’s initial distribution, and, in FDA’s words, “subsequent distribution by the consignees to other parties may not be included.”
- How many have been returned, corrected or destroyed: FDA’s report doesn’t say.
- Whether anyone was hurt or fell ill: the report doesn’t say.
- How current it is: openFDA publishes FDA’s Enforcement Report weekly, after FDA does, and a firm can announce a recall weeks before it appears there. openFDA’s own caution: “This data should not be used as a method to collect data to issue alerts to the public, nor should it be used to track the lifecycle of a recall.”
- Meat, poultry and egg products are recalled by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, not FDA, and its recalls aren’t here yet: see fsis.usda.gov.
- A product with no recall here isn’t safe by that: FDA’s report lists the recalls FDA classified, and when.
Hearth Record wrote these lines; the quotations are FDA’s.
Sources
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Food recall enforcement reports.
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