Agency classClass IIOur severity:High FDA (Food)·F-0130-2025·Announced 2024-11-20

Home Chef Chicken Street Taco Recalled for Listeria Contamination

The Kroger Co is recalling Home Chef Chicken Street Taco meal kits due to Listeria monocytogenes contamination in the cooked chicken. Approximately 24,072 units distributed across 31 states are affected.

The agency’s classification

FDA (Food): Class II

Class II is a situation in which use of or exposure to a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences, or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.

This is the agency’s own classification, taken from its notice. The severity score below is our assessment, not the agency’s. How recall classes work

What this means for you

Our assessment, not the agency’s: severity 3/5 (High).

Real risk of harm even if no illness or injury has been reported yet. Stop using the product and follow the agency's guidance.

Our severity reasoning: This is an FDA Class II recall for Listeria monocytogenes, a high-risk pathogen in a ready-to-eat product. The source reports no illnesses or hospitalizations, meeting the rubric criterion for high-risk pathogens without reported illness (score 3).

Plain-English summary

The Kroger Co is recalling Home Chef Chicken Street Taco meal kits due to contamination with Listeria monocytogenes in the cooked chicken. The product is a 9.93 oz ready-to-eat meal kit packaged in a plastic tray with clear plastic lid, sold under UPC 84013430435 with all lot codes.

Approximately 24,072 consumer units were distributed to retail stores across 31 states: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

Consumers who have purchased this product should not consume it and should discard it or return it to the place of purchase. Listeria monocytogenes is a pathogenic bacterium capable of causing serious infection.

The recalled product

Product: Home Chef Chicken Street Taco, Net Wt. 9.93 oz, packaged in a plastic tray with clear plastic lid, perishable item kept under refrigeration, UPC 84013430435, all lot codes
Manufacturer: The Kroger Co
Category: Food — Ready-to-Eat Meal Kit
Hazard: listeria
Affected units: 24,072

Is your product affected?

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Distribution

Distributed in 31 states:

Part of a larger recall action

This product is one of 2 recalled by The Kroger Co under a single FDA (Food) recall action. The agency files each product separately, so the size of the action is not visible from this page alone.

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Same manufacturer · The Kroger Co

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