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Great Lakes Cheese
Recall · Class III2023-08-11Terminated

Was not kept cold enough before it reached the shop.

Refrigerated pasteurized process cheese products may not be refrigerated at customer level due to labeled refrigeration requirements varying on finished product labels.

Above, in the agency’s own words. The line before it is our plain-English summary — how we word these.

Issued by the US Food and Drug Administration, naming Great Lakes Cheese.

What the notice covered

Pasteurized Process Cheese Spread packaged under the following brands and sizes: 1. Great Lakes Cheese Easy Cheesy, Net Wt 32 oz (2lb)907g. UPC 0 36514-19245 0. Refrigerate After Purchase. Distributed by Great Lakes Cheese Co., Inc. Hiram, OH 44234 2. HEB Easy Melt Queso Blanco, Net Wt 16 oz (1 lb) 453g. UPC 0 41220-95298 4, Refrigerate after Opening. Made with Pride and Care for H-E-B, San Antonio, Texas 78204 3. ingles Laura Lynn Cheasy, Net Wt 32 oz (2lb)907g. UPC 0 86854-00843 0, Refrigerate after Purchase. Distributed By Ingles Markets, Inc. Asheville, NC 28816 4. So Cheezy Original, Net Wt 32 oz (2lb)907g. UPC 0 51933-19500 4. Once Opened, Refrigerate and Use Within 5 days. Distributed By: Moran Foods, LLC, St. Ann, MO 63074

Quoted from the record as published. If a product is not described here, this notice does not tell us whether it was affected.

What Class III means

The FDA’s least serious class: use of the product is not likely to cause adverse health consequences. Often a labelling or packaging fault.

This is the agency’s own definition of the class. We do not assign classes and we do not rank them against each other.

The record

Agency
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Reference number
F-1525-2023
Kind of action
Recall
Dated
2023-08-11
Terminated
2025-01-10
Status on the record
Terminated
We read it
2026-10-01

Regulates most packaged food, drugs and devices. Its recall records are published weekly in the Enforcement Report.

Products we matched to this notice

EasyMelt queso blancothe notice printed this product’s barcode: “0 41220-95298 4”
Pasteurized Process Cheese Spreadthe notice printed this product’s barcode: “0 51933-19500 4”

How we are treating it

This notice concerns the product line itself or how it was produced.

The government record

The FDA publishes this notice through its enforcement API, so the link below returns raw JSON rather than a readable page. It is the primary record and we cite it as such; everything above is our transcription of it.

https://api.fda.gov/food/enforcement.json?search=recall_number:"F-1525-2023"

To see it in the FDA’s own words, search the reference number F-1525-2023 in the Search the FDA Enforcement Report. The FDA publishes no direct link to an individual recall.

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