PlainRecordsCity Foods, Inc. Recalls Ready-To-Eat Pastrami and Corned Beef Products Due To Possible Listeria Contamination
- Reason (FSIS)
- Product Contamination
- Risk level (FSIS)
- High - Class I
- States
- Nationwide
- Date
- Aug. 8, 2026
- Risk class
- Class I (USDA FSIS rates it "High - Class I")
- Status
- Closed Recall
- Filed by
- City Foods, Inc./Bea's Best Corned Beef
- Products (as FSIS lists them)
- 10-lb. cardboard boxes containing 2- to 5-lb. pieces of “Midamar Premium Beef Pastrami” with case code “19410” printed on the box label.
Various weight 20- to 30-lb. cardboard boxes containing 2-3 pieces of “BEA’S BEST COOKED CORNED BEEF BRISKET” with case code “18919” printed on the box label.
Various weight 20- to 30-lb. cardboard boxes containing 2-3 pieces of “KIRSCH DELICATESSEN STYLE COOKED CORNED BEEF BRISKET” with case code “19751” printed on the box label. - Reason (FSIS's category)
- Product Contamination
- Risk level (FSIS)
- High - Class I
- Recall type
- Closed Recall
- Establishment
- City Foods, Inc./Bea's Best Corned Beef
- Establishment number in the USDA mark of inspection (FSIS's notice)
- EST. 1896
- States (FSIS's distribution list)
- Nationwide
- Quantity recovered
- 3,215 lbs
- Related to an outbreak (FSIS's mark)
- No
- Processing category
- Fully Cooked - Not Shelf Stable
- Last modified by FSIS
- Aug. 13, 2026
- Recall number
- 015-2026
What the record says is in it
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“Product Contamination”City Foods, Inc. Recalls Ready-To-Eat Pastrami and Corned Beef Products Due To Possible Listeria Contamination, USDA FSIS recall, 2026-08-08. The caption is the record's own words.
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Establishment EST. 1896 in FSIS's directory: City Foods, Inc./Bea's Best Corned Beef, Chicago, IL.
This recall among the others
- The 32nd of 53 recall events dated in 2026 so far whose agency record names Listeria (all of them).
Counted from the agency records on this site, as on Statistics: a recall event once, by its first notice.
What should I do? Food recall: what to do with it · How to read this record
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Cite this record
USDA FSIS recall record 015-2026, Aug. 8, 2026. "City Foods, Inc. Recalls Ready-To-Eat Pastrami and Corned Beef Products Due To Possible Listeria Contamination." PlainRecords, https://plainrecords.com/recall/food/015-2026/ (on this site since Oct. 14, 2026; as of the day it was built).At each build a sample of records from each source is compared with the agency's published file and the page; every correction is public. Drawings are chosen by software that reads the record. Built daily. How we check · Corrections