Selectos Latinos Requeson Salvadoreno Ricotta Style Salvadorean Cheese, Net Weight 14…
La Colonia Foods Llc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 12 August 2026 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
The record
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- Product
- Selectos Latinos Requeson Salvadoreno Ricotta Style Salvadorean Cheese, Net Weight 14 oz, packed into retail-sized clear plastic containers. Keep refrigerated.
- Reason for recall
- Products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
- Recalling firm
- La Colonia Foods Llc
- Firm location
- Rockville, Maryland, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Ongoing
- Recall number
- H-1218-2026
- Quantity
- 205 (14-oz) units
- Distribution
- The recalled product was distributed to the following states: MD, VA
- Initiated
- 4 June 2026
- Reported by FDA
- 12 August 2026
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- Selec1008
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 4 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 4 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 4. All 4 of them are listed on this page.
- This recall has no termination date on the record, so as published it had not been terminated under 21 CFR 7.55.
- The distribution pattern names 1 state, and the FDA published the enforcement report 2 months after the firm began the recall.
- Cheese dominates Listeria recalls among dairy products because soft and semi-soft varieties hold enough moisture for the organism to grow at refrigeration temperature, and because most are eaten without any further cooking step.
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.
Filed under cheese. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 4 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 3 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-12 | Selectos Latinos Requeson Mexicano Mexican Cottage Cheese, Net Weight 16 oz, packed into retail-sized clear plastic containers. Keep refrigerated. | La Colonia Foods Llc | Products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2026-08-12 | La Colonia Foods Salvadoreno Requeson Soft Ricotta, Net Wt: 14 oz (367g), packaged into retail-sized clear plastic containers. Keep refrigerated. | La Colonia Foods Llc | Products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2026-08-12 | Requeson, bulk product from Clover Hill Dairy packed into a plastic 18-lb bucket. Unknown labeling information. Keep refrigerated. | La Colonia Foods Llc | Products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
Other cheese recalls for the same reason
These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food, recalled for a hazard this record also names. Unlike the firm’s own records below, they come from different companies, which is what makes them a pattern rather than a history.
Other records from La Colonia Foods Llc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-12 | Selectos Latinos Requeson Mexicano Mexican Cottage Cheese, Net Weight 16 oz, packed into retail-sized clear plastic containers. Keep refrigerated. | La Colonia Foods Llc | Products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2026-08-12 | La Colonia Foods Salvadoreno Requeson Soft Ricotta, Net Wt: 14 oz (367g), packaged into retail-sized clear plastic containers. Keep refrigerated. | La Colonia Foods Llc | Products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2026-08-12 | Requeson, bulk product from Clover Hill Dairy packed into a plastic 18-lb bucket. Unknown labeling information. Keep refrigerated. | La Colonia Foods Llc | Products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
All 4 records for La Colonia Foods Llc
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21 CFR 117.135(c)(3) is the clause behind this recall, and it is one somebody has to produce evidence for at their next audit. Krolda maps supplier documents to the clause they satisfy in FSSC 22000, IFS Food and 21 CFR 117, and routes the corrective action when the evidence is missing.
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