How many food recalls are for listeria each year?
The FDA classified 63 food recalls for listeria in 2025; the most since 2013 was 139 in 2016. Listeria is a germ that can grow in the refrigerator and is most dangerous for pregnant women, newborns, older adults and people with weak immune systems. A recall counts once however many products it covers, in the year FDA first listed it in its weekly Enforcement Report. Chartly sorted FDA's written reasons by their key words, so a recall naming listeria and another germ counts here. Meat, poultry and most egg products are USDA's to recall and aren't included. The newest listeria recalls, this year's included, are listed below.
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Key facts
Measure: Food recalls for listeria. Written from the data below.
- The latest figure, for 2025, is 63.
- That is up 29% from 49 in 2013.
- The highest was 139 in 2016.
- The lowest was 34 in 2023.
The newest listeria recalls
Newest first, as of October 21, 2026. The source's own words are in quotes.
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Class I (most serious)
Made Fresh Salads Inc (Bay Shore, NY): Made Fresh brand Black Bean and Corn Salad
“Products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.”
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Class I (most serious)
“Contamination with Listeria monocytogenes”
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Class I (most serious)
“Contamination with Listeria monocytogenes”
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Class II
Elegant Foods, LLC (Madison, WI): Pecorino Toscano D.O.P
“Potential Listeria contamination from dripping condensation in cooler.”
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Class I (most serious)
Optimus Inc. d/b/a/ Markys Caviar (Miami Gardens, FL): Mon Sire Brie, soft-ripened French cheese
“The firm was notified by their Brie Cheese supplier that sample results revealed the presence of Listeria monocytogenes.”
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Class II
“Product had a presumptive positive test result for Listeria monocytogenes”
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Class I (most serious)
“Product contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.”
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Class I (most serious)
“Products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.”
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Class I (most serious)
Nelson & Isa Lacteos LLC (Bay Shore, NY): Requeson (soft ricotta) 1 lb
“Products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.”
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Class I (most serious)
HH FRESH TRADING CORP (Los Angeles, CA): HH Fresh Trading Corp
“Imported Enoki Mushrooms tested positive for Listeria Monocytogenes.”
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Class I (most serious)
IQ PRODUCE, LLC (Vernon, CA): Enoki Mushroom
“Imported Enoki Mushrooms samples collected by Florida Department of Health tested positive for Listeria Monocytogenes.”
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Class I (most serious)
HEMU TRADING INC (Los Angeles, CA): Black label with blue lettering
“product tested positive for Listeria Monocytogenes.”
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Class I (most serious)
“Products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.”
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Class II
“Potential contamination with listeria monocytogenes.”
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Class I (most serious)
Oregon Potato Company LLC (Salem, OR): IQF frozen Blueberry (30lbs
“Listeria monocytogenes”
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Class II
SLADE GORTON & CO., INC. (Waltham, MA): Wellsley Farms Farm- Raised Atlantic Salmon Net WT
“Contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes”
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Class II
“Potential contamination with biological hazards (Listeria monocytogenes).”
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Class II
Southern Rocklobster LTD USA (Vernon, CA): Australian Greenlip Abalone, Frozen
“Potential Listeria Monocytogenes contamination”
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Class I (most serious)
Ambriola Co., Inc., The (West Caldwell, NJ): Locatelli Grated Pecorino Romano (8 products)
“Product tested positive for Listeria Monocytogenes.”
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Class I (most serious)
“Potential presence of Listeria monocytogenes.”
The bigger picture, in plain words: Are food recalls going up?
What was recalled lately? See every food recall in November 2026, or any month since 2020, in plain words.
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| Year FDA classified the recall | Food recalls for listeria |
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| 2013 | 49 |
| 2014 | 49 |
| 2015 | 74 |
| 2016 | 139 |
| 2017 | 106 |
| 2018 | 71 |
| 2019 | 64 |
| 2020 | 45 |
| 2021 | 43 |
| 2022 | 44 |
| 2023 | 34 |
| 2024 | 66 |
| 2025 | 63 |
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