Food Safety

Salvadorean string cheese recalled for possible listeria

Production suspended to investigate source

Limena LLC recalled 1-lb. blocks of Salvadorean semisoft string cheese (quesillo cheese) for possible listeria contamination

The cheese was distributed to retail stores and through mail orders. The cheese comes in a clear vacuum package with a blue and white label, marked with lot #1041020.

Routine testing by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services found Listeria monocytogenes in one cheese block sample.

The Palm Springs, Fla., company suspended production of the product while it and the FDA investigate the problem’s source.

No illnesses had been reported at the time of the recall announcement.

The company urged people who bought the cheese to discard it. Anyone with questions may call the company at 561-541-5206 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. EST weekdays.

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Rose Shilling is a previous managing editor of Food Engineering Magazine. She wrote feature stories on a variety of topics and tracked the food packaging industry. A journalist with an editing background at news services and newspapers, she also has driven editorial projects in health care and higher education.