Class ITerminated · reported 2017-04-05

Lipari Old Tyme Colby Jack Longhorn, 2/14.5#

Lipari Foods, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 5 April 2017 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Lipari Foods is recalling multiple cheeses because of a supplier's recall of cheese due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.

The record

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Product: Lipari Old Tyme Colby Jack Longhorn, 2/14.5#
Reason for recall: Lipari Foods is recalling multiple cheeses because of a supplier's recall of cheese due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.
Recalling firm: Lipari Foods, Inc.
Firm location: Warren, Michigan, United States
Classification: Class I
Status: Terminated
Recall number: F-1793-2017
Quantity: 276 units
Distribution: Domestic: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Wisconsin and West Virginia Foreign: None VA/DOD: None
Initiated: 9 February 2017
Reported by FDA: 5 April 2017
Terminated: 18 July 2017
Firm notified by: Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes: Product Number: 119636, Sell By Date: 5/28/17 thru 10/24/17

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

Class I means the FDA judged a reasonable probability that the product would cause serious health consequences or death. The class is assigned by an agency health hazard evaluation under 21 CFR 7.41, not by the firm.
The firm started this recall itself. Most FDA food recalls are voluntary, and a recall is a food safety plan working rather than failing. The circumstances in which the agency asks for one instead are set out in 21 CFR 7.45.
This is one of 14 records covering the same recall event. The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so a recall of a product line appears here many times. Counting these records as 14 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 14. Every product code in this event is listed together on the record that covers the whole recall, which is the page a search engine is pointed to for all 14 of them.
The recall ran for 5 months, from 9 February 2017 to termination on 18 July 2017. Termination means the agency judged that all reasonable effort had been made, under 21 CFR 7.55, and it says nothing about whether product remained in circulation.
The FDA published the enforcement report 8 weeks after the firm began the recall.
The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.

What this recall was for

Listeria monocytogenes

Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium that grows at refrigeration temperature, which is why it dominates recalls of ready-to-eat foods that are never cooked again before they are eaten.

A preventive controls plan covers Listeria contamination under the clauses below. This is where the control belongs, not a finding against any firm named on this page: a recall record states a reason, and most of these recalls were initiated by the firm itself.

21 CFR 117.135(c)(3): Sanitation controls: the controls on cleaning food-contact surfaces and on preventing cross-contact and cross-contamination from insanitary objects, people and equipment.
21 CFR 117.165(a)(3): Environmental monitoring: testing the processing environment for an environmental pathogen, required when a ready-to-eat food is exposed to the environment before packaging.
21 CFR 117.150: Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.

Other records from Lipari Foods, Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 79 other records name this firm.

Reported	Product	Firm	Reason	Class
2018-08-15	Premo Brand and Fresh Grab turkey and Swiss submarine sandwiches, 4/6 oz, and 18/6 oz.	Lipari Foods, Inc.	Lipari Foods, LLC has issued a voluntary recall of Premo Brand and Fresh Grab turkey and Swiss submarine sandwiches produced and packaged by sister company JLM due to potential contamination of Listeria monocytogenes	Class I
2017-10-04	Sunflower Seeds Honey Roasted, 12oz Tubs & 25lb Bulk	Lipari Foods, Inc.	Lipari Foods LLC initiated a voluntary recall of Honey Roasted Sunflower Seeds, 12oz Tubs & 25lb Bulk, due to an off taste following a consumer complaint and mislabeled shelf life.	Class III
2017-04-12	Thortons Italian Footlong 6/12 oz.	Lipari Foods, Inc.	JLM Manufacturing initiated a recall on 02/21/2017 of multiple ready to eat sandwiches containing cheese because of a supplier's recall of cheese due to Listeria monocytogenes.	Class I
2017-04-12	Thortons Italian & Provolone 12 oz.	Lipari Foods, Inc.	JLM Manufacturing initiated a recall on 02/21/2017 of multiple ready to eat sandwiches containing cheese because of a supplier's recall of cheese due to Listeria monocytogenes.	Class I
2017-04-12	Premo Turkey & Garlic Mayo Item # 207455, Net wt. 5.5 oz; Core-Mark Turkey & Garlic Mayo Item # 568207, Net wt. 5.5 oz; Fresh Grab Turkey & Provolone with Garlic Mayo Item # 455956, Net wt. 5.5 oz	Lipari Foods, Inc.	JLM Manufacturing initiated a recall on 02/21/2017 of multiple ready to eat sandwiches containing cheese because of a supplier's recall of cheese due to Listeria monocytogenes.	Class I
2017-04-12	Premo Signature Classic Italian, 1/6 oz.	Lipari Foods, Inc.	JLM Manufacturing initiated a recall on 02/21/2017 of multiple ready to eat sandwiches containing cheese because of a supplier's recall of cheese due to Listeria monocytogenes.	Class I
2017-04-12	Premo Asiago Italian Item # 207919, Net Wt 6 oz; Fresh Grab Asiago Italian Item # 251847, Net Wt 6 oz; Core-Mark Asiago Italian Item # 568377, Net Wt 6 oz;	Lipari Foods, Inc.	JLM Manufacturing initiated a recall on 02/21/2017 of multiple ready to eat sandwiches containing cheese because of a supplier's recall of cheese due to Listeria monocytogenes.	Class I
2017-04-12	Premo Ham & Provolone Item # 207851, Net Wt 6 oz; Fresh Grab Ham & Provolone Item # 251745, Net Wt 6 oz; Core-Mark Ham & Provolone Item # 568343, Net Wt 6 oz;	Lipari Foods, Inc.	JLM Manufacturing initiated a recall on 02/21/2017 of multiple ready to eat sandwiches containing cheese because of a supplier's recall of cheese due to Listeria monocytogenes.	Class I
2017-04-12	Premo Italian Wrap, 1/5 oz.	Lipari Foods, Inc.	JLM Manufacturing initiated a recall on 02/21/2017 of multiple ready to eat sandwiches containing cheese because of a supplier's recall of cheese due to Listeria monocytogenes.	Class I
2017-04-12	Coffee House Italian Flatbread , Item # 226323 net wt. 6 oz.; Fresh Grab Italian Flatbread , Item # 252323 net wt. 6 oz.	Lipari Foods, Inc.	JLM Manufacturing initiated a recall on 02/21/2017 of multiple ready to eat sandwiches containing cheese because of a supplier's recall of cheese due to Listeria monocytogenes.	Class I

All 80 records for Lipari Foods, Inc.

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