Class IITerminated · reported 2026-01-28

Australian Greenlip Abalone, Frozen, 9 pieces, Net Wt. 23.5 OZ UPC: 9335533013342

Southern Rocklobster LTD USA recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 28 January 2026 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Potential Listeria Monocytogenes contamination

The record

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Product: Australian Greenlip Abalone, Frozen, 9 pieces, Net Wt. 23.5 OZ UPC: 9335533013342
UPC: 9335533013342
Reason for recall: Potential Listeria Monocytogenes contamination
Recalling firm: Southern Rocklobster LTD USA
Firm location: Vernon, California, United States
Classification: Class II
Status: Terminated
Recall number: H-0406-2026
Quantity: 94 cases
Distribution: Product was distributed to one customer in multiple locations throughout California.
Initiated: 24 December 2025
Reported by FDA: 28 January 2026
Terminated: 23 July 2026
Firm notified by: E-Mail
Product codes: Lot# 5996 Best Before: 29/11/2027

Reading this record

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

Class II means the FDA judged a remote probability of serious harm, or a probability of temporary or medically reversible harm. 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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
The recall ran for 7 months, from 24 December 2025 to termination on 23 July 2026. 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 5 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.

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