Pesto bowtie pasta salad recalled over Listeria in recalled ingredient
Albertsons Companies is recalling Ready Meals Pesto Bowtie Pasta Salad sold under six banners because it contains a bowtie pasta ingredient recalled for Listeria monocytogenes.
The agency’s classification
FDA (Food): Class I
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.
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 5/5 (Critical).
Highest-severity recall. The hazard can cause serious injury or death. Stop using the product now and follow the agency's instructions.
Our severity reasoning: Scored 5 because the FDA classified this recall as Class I, which the rubric assigns the Critical tier.
Plain-English summary
Ready Meals Pesto Bowtie Pasta Salad, UPC beginning 27133, is being recalled. The product was made in-store with a store-generated scale label applied to the container, and sold under the Albertsons, Pavilions, Randalls, Safeway, Tom Thumb and Vons banners in Arkansas, Arizona, California and Colorado among other states.
The recall is for Listeria monocytogenes: the store-made deli item contains a bowtie pasta ingredient that was recalled because of Listeria monocytogenes.
The affected product carries sell-through dates of 8 September 2025 through 4 October 2025 and was distributed in Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Wyoming. The FDA has classified the recall as Class I.
Listeria monocytogenes can cause serious infection, particularly in pregnant people, newborns, older adults and people with weakened immune systems. Anyone holding the product should not eat it and should follow the store's instructions.
The recalled product
- Product
- READY MEALS Pesto Bowtie Pasta Salad, UPC 27133 #####. Product was made in-store with store generated scale label applied to the container. Sold under store banners Albertsons, Pavilions, Randalls, Safeway, Tom Thumb, and Vons in AR, AZ, CA, CO, LA, NE, NM, NV, OK, SD, TX…
- Manufacturer
- Albertsons Companies LLC
- Category
- Food — Prepared food
Is your product affected?
Check your packaging against the codes below. If any of them match, the product is part of this recall.
Lot numbers (1)
- Sell Thru Dates: SEP 8 25 Thru OCT 4 25
Distribution
Part of a larger recall action
This product is one of 10 recalled by Albertsons Companies LLC 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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