Kayem Foods' Class I recall is FSIS's lone action, matching the 1-a-week median
Kayem Foods Inc. recalled meat and poultry products on Oct. 17 in USDA FSIS notice 026-2026, a Class I recall listed for a processing defect and possible temperature abuse.
Class I is the most serious of the three FSIS recall classes, defined in FSIS Directive 8080.1 as a reasonable probability that eating the product will cause serious health consequences or death.
The action is USDA FSIS notice 026-2026, dated Oct. 17 and titled a recall of meat and poultry products due to possible temperature abuse, with the reason listed as a processing defect. FSIS places recalls in three classes; Class I, the class assigned here, is the one the agency defines as a reasonable probability of serious, adverse health consequences or death from the product.
The recall was the only FSIS recall or public health alert in the week of Oct. 12 to Oct. 18, and the week of Oct. 19 to Oct. 25 recorded none, leaving one action across the two weeks to Oct. 24. The median over the previous 24 weeks was also 1 action per week, according to USDA FSIS recall and alert counts.
FSIS counts recalls and public health alerts as separate kinds of action, and an alert is not a recall. A recall is a firm's removal of product from the market; a public health alert is the agency's warning to the public about a product, issued without a recall, per FSIS's published definitions. No public health alert appears in this window.
Weekly FSIS counts have ranged from 0 actions in some weeks to 4 in the week of Aug. 3 since late April. The full notice and product list for this recall are published by USDA FSIS under notice 026-2026.
Room for disagreement
A single action in one week is a thin basis for reading a trend: weekly FSIS counts since late April have run from 0 to 4, so a week at the 1-a-week median is also what an ordinary week looks like.
About the data
Every figure in this story is read from PostNewz's food_recalls table (30 rows read Oct 23, 3:00 p.m. HST): USDA FSIS actions per week; the last two weeks hold 1 against a weekly median of 1 over 25 earlier weeks (food_recalls). Prose by Julia Knight (pn93-pnj-v5, model @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017); numbers checked against the rows by the figure guard; neutrality check passed.