Kirsch Delicatessen Style Cooked Corned Beef Brisket

Kirsch Delicatessen Style Cooked Corned Beef Brisket is a ready-to-eat meat product label identified in a U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) recall notice. According to reporting on the recall, the product was packed in various-weight 20- to 30-pound cardboard boxes containing two to three pieces, with case code "18919" printed on the box label, and it carried the USDA mark of inspection with establishment number EST. 1896. The product was produced on July 16, 2026, and given a 60-day shelf life. The recall was initiated by City Foods, Inc., a Chicago-based company, over concerns that the ready-to-eat corned beef and pastrami products may be contaminated with Listeria. In total, 3,215 pounds of ready-to-eat pastrami and corned beef were recalled. The products were initially sent to food service locations in Illinois, Iowa, and Michigan before being shipped nationwide, and FSIS urged consumers and businesses not to eat or serve the items, instead throwing them away or returning them to where they were purchased. Beyond the recall notice, little public information is available about the Kirsch label itself — its founding, ownership, and full product range are not documented in the supplied evidence. The brand appears in the record as a food-service-oriented delicatessen-style corned beef offering rather than as a consumer-facing retail brand with a distinct corporate identity. This dossier therefore treats it as a product brand within the prepared and processed meat category, with the recall as its principal documented event.

The documented history of the Kirsch Delicatessen Style Cooked Corned Beef Brisket label is tied to a single recall event rather than to a long corporate narrative. The product appears in a U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service recall notice reported in 2026, in which City Foods, Inc., a Chicago-based meat company, recalled ready-to-eat corned beef and pastrami products over fears of Listeria contamination. According to the recall reporting, the Kirsch product was packed in various-weight 20- to 30-pound cardboard boxes containing two to three pieces, with case code "18919" on the box label, and bore the USDA mark of inspection with establishment number EST. 1896. All recalled pastrami and corned beef were produced on July 16, 2026, and had a 60-day shelf life. In total, 3,215 pounds of product were recalled. The items were initially sent to food service locations in Illinois, Iowa, and Michigan before being shipped nationwide, and FSIS warned that the products might still be in consumers' or businesses' refrigerators or freezers, urging them to discard or return the items. The recall notice is the principal public record of the Kirsch label. No founding date, ownership structure, or broader product history for the brand is documented in the available evidence, so its earlier history cannot be reliably reconstructed here.

• Production date of the recalled Kirsch Delicatessen Style Cooked Corned Beef Brisket and other City Foods ready-to-eat meats.

• City Foods, Inc. recalls 3,215 pounds of ready-to-eat corned beef and pastrami, including the Kirsch product, over Listeria concerns.

Food-service-oriented ready-to-eat delicatessen-style corned beef, sold in bulk boxes to institutional and restaurant channels.

• Kirsch Delicatessen Style Cooked Corned Beef Brisket

  Ready-to-eat corned beef brisket in various-weight 20- to 30-pound cardboard boxes containing 2–3 pieces, case code 18919, USDA establishment EST. 1896, 60-day shelf life.

• 2026

  City Foods recalls pastrami and corned beef over Listeria concerns

  City Foods, Inc. recalled 3,215 pounds of ready-to-eat pastrami and corned beef over Listeria concerns. The products were distributed nationwide. The FSIS said no related illnesses had been reported.

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