About the Recalled Product
The recalled product is the Los Cabos® Egg, Cheese, Potato & Cooked Sausage Crumbles (Made with Turkey) Breakfast Wrap, sold in institutional cases of 11.25 to 16.2 lbs. bearing establishment number EST. 1162A or P-5890A inside the USDA mark of inspection. The three affected lot codes are 80872, 80876, and 80881.
Latest Updates
FSIS announced the recall on October 18, 2025, after M.C.I. Foods identified Listeria monocytogenes contamination in eggs obtained from an outside supplier through routine ingredient testing [1]. The broader recall encompasses seven products under the El Mas Fino, Los Cabos, and Midamar brand names — more than 91,000 pounds of ready-to-eat product produced over a four-week period and shipped to institutional foodservice operations across the country [2]. FSIS clarified that the recalled products were not distributed through the National School Lunch Program but may have been sold commercially to schools and other institutions [3].
An Egg Supplier’s Contamination Inside a Multi-Ingredient Assembled Product
The Los Cabos Egg, Cheese, Potato & Cooked Sausage Crumbles wrap is a more complex assembly than a single-filling burrito — it combines eggs, cheese, diced or shredded potato, and turkey sausage crumbles into a single ready-to-eat product. Each ingredient in that assembly represents a point of entry for contamination, and the egg component — the one FSIS identified as the source — was sourced from an outside vendor whose product carried Listeria monocytogenes.
A food service worker or student receiving this product had no means of detecting Listeria contamination in a fully assembled, fully cooked, frozen wrap. The contamination entered during production, after the cooking step that would otherwise have eliminated it, and traveled through distribution and institutional freezer storage to the point of service without any visible sign of the hazard.
Three Lot Codes Spanning Multiple Production Runs
Lot codes 80872, 80876, and 80881 represent three distinct production runs of this specific wrap variety, spread across the September 17 through October 14, 2025 production window. Multiple lot codes across multiple runs indicate that the contaminated egg supply was used in production on more than one occasion during this period — and that the contamination was not an isolated single-batch event but a recurring ingredient-level hazard that affected the product over multiple weeks of manufacturing.
Institutions that received shipments of this product during that window may have received product from more than one of the three affected lots, depending on when their orders were fulfilled and how their frozen inventory was rotated.
Who Is Most at Risk from Listeria in Institutional Food Settings
Listeria monocytogenes causes listeriosis, an infection that presents with fever, muscle aches, stiff neck, headache, confusion, and loss of balance, and that can progress to meningitis, bloodstream infection, and death in severe cases. The populations most commonly served by institutional foodservice — children in school cafeterias, elderly residents in care facilities, patients in hospitals, and pregnant women — are precisely those FSIS identifies as facing the most serious consequences from listeriosis.
In pregnancy, Listeria can cross the placental barrier and cause miscarriage, stillbirth, premature birth, or life-threatening infection in the newborn, even when the mother experiences only mild flu-like symptoms that she may not connect to a food she consumed days or weeks earlier.
Reported Illnesses
No confirmed illnesses were reported to M.C.I. Foods or FSIS in connection with the recalled Los Cabos breakfast wrap as of the October 18, 2025 recall announcement. Listeria’s incubation period of three days to ten weeks means that illnesses caused by product consumed before the recall may only appear weeks after exposure, and institutional settings — where staff may not connect a patron’s illness to a specific menu item served on a specific date — create additional barriers to identifying and reporting affected individuals.
Can I File a Lawsuit?
If you or a family member developed a Listeria infection after consuming Los Cabos® Egg, Cheese, Potato & Cooked Sausage Crumbles (Made with Turkey) Breakfast Wrap bearing lot code 80872, 80876, or 80881, you may have product liability claims against M.C.I. Foods and the outside egg supplier whose contaminated product was incorporated into the wrap. Contact an attorney promptly, as state filing deadlines apply.
What to Do Now
Institutions should immediately check freezers for Los Cabos® Egg, Cheese, Potato & Cooked Sausage Crumbles (Made with Turkey) Breakfast Wrap bearing lot codes 80872, 80876, or 80881 and discard the product — do not serve it under any circumstances. Contact M.C.I. Foods, Inc. at 1-888-345-5364 with questions, or call the USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline at 1-888-674-6854 (Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. ET).
References
1. https://www.mesacounty.us/news/public-health/food-safety-alert-ready-eat-products-containing-eggs-recalled-due-listeria
2. https://www.wyomingnews.com/lifestyles/health/91-000-pounds-of-frozen-meals-recalled-for-listeria-risk/article_d72eb6b3-8364-5b90-996f-2a6c1959436d.html
3. https://www.local3news.com/local-news/consumer-alert/over-90-000-pounds-of-frozen-breakfast-burritos-recalled-for-possible-listeria-contamination/article_073d7155-712d-419f-92c5-93b7b5fbb4c2.html