Maxima Urges Customers to Return Meat Product After Dangerous Bacteria Found

Maxima is asking customers to return a cooked pork product after self-monitoring tests found Listeria bacteria. The recalled item is a 350-gram, premium-grade Well Done roll made by UAB Daivida from pork tongues and ears.

Ernesta Vareikytė, Maxima’s head of media relations, said the company removed the product from sale as soon as it received the test results and began recalling it from customers. The affected product carries batch number 125231 and a use-by date of Sept. 23, 2026. Stores will display recall information for two weeks.

Customers who still have the product at home are being told not to consume it and to return it to any Maxima store. The retailer said it would refund the purchase price when customers present a receipt or another document proving the purchase. Customers can also contact Maxima by phone or email, although email requests will require photographs of the product and purchase document.

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Customer safety and the quality of the products we sell are our priorities.

“Customer safety and the quality of the products we sell are our priorities,” Vareikytė said, adding that Maxima conducts regular self-monitoring tests and had increased their number this year. She said the product’s noncompliance was identified during one of those company-initiated checks.

Lithuania’s State Food and Veterinary Service warned that refrigeration slows the growth of many bacteria but does not destroy them. Listeria monocytogenes is particularly concerning because it can survive and multiply at low temperatures. The authority said listeriosis can cause serious health consequences for pregnant women and their unborn children, newborns, older people and those with weakened immune systems.

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However, Listeria monocytogenes is far more insidious: it can multiply even at low temperatures.