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Nearly 60 products recalled for Listeria

Recall Rizo-Lopez Foods Inc. Fresco Fresh Mexican Crumbling Cheese
Posted at 9:53 AM, Feb 07, 2024
and last updated 2024-02-08 12:16:31-05

Dairy products from Rizo-Lopez Foods, Inc. (RLF) are being recalled for possible listeria contamination.

Better known as Rizo Brothers California Creamery, the company is voluntarily calling back their cheese, yogurt, and sour cream products distributed nationwide.

"Based on information shared by the CDC and FDA, RLF may be a potential source of illness in an ongoing nationwide Listeria monocytogenes outbreak”
—FDA recall documents

The products were sold retail deli counters including, but not limited to:
El Super
Cardenas Market
Northgate Gonzalez
Superior Groceries
El Rancho
Vallarta
Food City
La Michoacana
Numero Uno Markets

Products were sold under the following brand names:
Tio Francisco
Don Francisco
Rizo Bros
Rio Grande
Food City
El Huache
La Ordena
San Carlos
Campesino
Santa Maria
Dos Ranchitos
Casa Cardenas
365 Whole Foods Market

"Listeria monocytogenes [is] an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. 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 stillbirths among pregnant women." says the FDA.

The entire list of recalled products can be found here:

FDA Dairy Product Recall Ri... by WXMI

Images of the nearly 60 recalled products can be found here.

Products should be thrown away.

Customers with questions can call 1-833-296-2233, 24 hours a day.

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