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A Houma company is recalling more than 4,000 pounds of its packaged burritos because of what its owners say is a paperwork problem, but which federal officials say amounts to a health risk.
Mickey Brown Inc. is recalling burritos produced on various dates from March 28 2017 through March 6, 2018, a notice from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.
“There have been no confirmed reports of adverse reactions due to consumption of these products,” the FDA notice states, nonetheless warning that they should not be eaten. The burritos of concern bear a mark of “EST. 33915.”
Marshall Brown IV, the son of Mickey Brown’s founder and co-owner, said the problem had to do with FDA employees not correctly doing their jobs, and that there is not a problem with the burritos themselves.
“This is a paperwork issue not a burrito issue,” Brown said.
The FDA notice says the recall is needed because the burritos in question “were produced without benefit of inspection.”
The Mickey Brown’s Taste of Cajun burritos are sold in 1-pound-3 ounce plastic bags. The company has a retail outlet at 257 Bergeron Street. It employs four people.
