The Amarillo Environmental Health Department issued a food recall alert late Friday afternoon regarding a truck carrying Cacique Foods products from the Amarillo plant that were sold in Hereford.
The health department said in the alert that Texas Department of State Health Services’ Retail Food Safety Operations received a report that “an entire truck load of Cacique cheese and meat products, previously rejected by the grocery/purchaser due to temperature abuse, engaged in retail sale of the product directly to consumers from the back of the truck in Hereford” on Thursday, Sept. 5.
These items included queso fresco; Crema Mexicana; Crema Agria; Sopes; panela; and soy, beef and pork chorizo.
The health department said that while most of the products in the truck were ultimately detained by DSHS Food and Drug investigators and returned to the plant in Amarillo, there were “several thousand pounds” of items that were unaccounted for.
“It is our understanding that prior to the detention, there may have been a substantial amount of product that was sold directly to local consumers in Hereford,” the department said. “We are also concerned that some of the product may have been purchased by local business owners for use in local retail food establishments.”