"Great Lakes Cheese, an Ohio-based company that calls itself "the nation's leading natural cheese packager," initiated a recall of half a dozen kinds of shredded cheese products from mozzarella to pizza-style in early October because they may contain fragments of metal. This week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) upgraded its risk classification to Class II, the second-highest, meaning consumption of the product could cause "temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences.""
"The affected cheeses are sold under dozens of brand names at nationwide retailers including Target, Walmart, Publix and Aldi. The FDA says they were distributed to 31 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, as well as Puerto Rico."
Two separate recalls involve large quantities of cheese sold at major retailers and carrying sell-by dates in 2026. One recall by Great Lakes Cheese covers multiple shredded cheeses, including low-moisture part-skim shredded mozzarella and pizza-style blends, due to possible metal fragments and an FDA Class II risk designation. Those shredded products were distributed to 31 states and Puerto Rico and sold under dozens of brand names at nationwide retailers such as Target, Walmart, Publix and Aldi. A second recall affects several brands of grated Pecorino Romano sold in more than a dozen states.
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