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Recall · Class I2012-09-11Terminated

May contain listeria, a germ that can cause serious illness.

Whole Foods Market announces that it is recalling ricotta salata sold in 21 states and Washington, D.C. that came from its supplier Forever Cheese Inc. of Long Island City, NY. Forever Cheese recalled this cheese product because it may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria monocytogenes is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail

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 Whole Foods Market.

What the notice covered

Frescolina and Mitica brand Ricotta Salata cheeses were cut into wedges, packaged in clear plastic wrap and sold with a Whole Foods Market scale label using PLU 293427 and PLU 294413, respectively. All "sell by" dates through Oct. 2 are affected.

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 I means

The FDA’s most serious class: a reasonable probability that using the product will cause serious health consequences or death.

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-0110-2013
Kind of action
Recall
Dated
2012-09-11
Terminated
2013-09-19
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

We have not matched this notice to any product in our database — usually because it named no barcode we hold. Products may still have been affected.

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-0110-2013"

To see it in the FDA’s own words, search the reference number F-0110-2013 in the Search the FDA Enforcement Report. The FDA publishes no direct link to an individual recall.

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