Item Number: 368768 Item Description: TUB LG SUNFLOWER MEAT R/NS Case Pack: 12 Package Size: 14 OZ 2-Piece

Recall map → All recalls → F-1698-2013

Item Number: 368768 Item Description: TUB LG SUNFLOWER MEAT R/NS Case Pack: 12 Package Size: 14 OZ 2-Piece Clear Plastic Tub (No Label on Top, Nutritional Label on Bottom) UPC Number: 094776081752 Lipari Foods, Inc. · reported 2013-07-17

Terminated This recall has been closed out by the agency.

Reason for recall: Contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirt
Classification: Class I
Recall initiated: 2013-06-04
Reported by the agency: 2013-07-17
Closed out (terminated): 2013-10-17
Recalling firm: Lipari Foods, Inc.
Warren, MI
United States
This is the firm that issued the recall — commonly a distributor or processor. It is not the origin of contamination.
Distribution (the agency's own words): Ohio, Michigan, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana.
States we parsed from that text: IL IN KY MI OH PA TN WI WV
The agency named these states. Parse method explicit_state_list, confidence high.
Food category: Meat & poultryderived
Assigned by a reviewed keyword rulebook over the product description, not by the agency.
Recall type: Voluntary: Firm initiated
Recall number: F-1698-2013

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