Posted on 12/07/2025 7:48:28 PM PST by Red Badger
More than 1.5 million bags of shredded cheese sold at retailers including Walmart and Target have been recalled after the Ohio-based manufacturer warned the products may contain metal fragments.
Great Lakes Cheese Co., the Hiram, Ohio-based firm, initiated the voluntary action affecting multiple brands sold at major retailers.
The recall, which began on Oct. 3, stems from potential metal fragments in supplier raw material — prompting what regulators describe as a downstream recall across several product lines.
The FDA classified the action on Dec. 1, and the recall remains active. The affected cheese — including mozzarella, Italian-style blends, pizza blends and mozzarella-based mixes — was distributed in 31 states and Puerto Rico at retailers including Walmart, Target and Aldi.
Brands named in the filings and in an FDA-linked update include Always Save, Borden, Brookshire’s, Cache Valley Creamery, Coburn Farms, Great Value, Happy Farms, Food Club, Econo, Gold Rush Creamery, Freedom’s Choice, Good & Gather and others.
Sell-by dates on the affected products run from January through March 2026, depending on the brand and formulation. Great Lakes Cheese did not issue a public press release though it did notify consignees of the problem, according to FDA records.
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Sounds like their receiving inspectors were asleep at the switch. Or they had no inspectors.
I thought they had metal detectors to scan for such things!...............
Nowadays, I’m just as concerned with the intended ingredients in our food supply.
That explains why the machine at airport kept sounding alarm when I was passing through security 😂
I only buy Tillamook mozzarella. Kind of expensive but you can taste the difference on your pizza. Tillamook cheddar for the grilled cheese sandwiches. And Tillamook ice cream is still ice cream.
Publix sells it...............
I've worked in various food factories, although never cheese....
They do have metal detectors. It could be as simple as a line worker being responsible for keeping a record of metal detector function didn't record it properly over a shift. Or it could be QA finding a small nick or small piece missing from a stainless steel production line, that somehow wasn't found in metal detection.
I'd say food factories are very careful about such things. The big corporations like Walmart, Coca Cola, McDonalds will make a supplier's life absolute hell if someone gets sick from a product they sold.
Prolly woulda been safer to just cut the cheese.
Avoid Cheap ice cream. Yes Expensive, but because it is expensive it sort of limits how much you eat.
My daughter has a friend that buys pasta from Italy. The friend is “gluten intolerant”, but can handle real Italian pasta just fine. So it isn’t the gluten, but something else added to the stuff made in the USA.
I'll have to try that next time I'm in the store.
If you shop at a Publix, they put it in an ‘end cap freezer’ separate from all the fake stuff................
Many years ago, I heard that Parmesan was hard enough that it wore out the grinding/shredding blades when processed for such uses.
Metal fragments….the new roughage!
The machinery needs a little maintenance...
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