Was not kept cold enough before it reached the shop.
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.
Pasteurized Prepared Cheese Product packaged under the following brands and sizes: 1. Great Value Original Melt'n Dip Easy Melt Cheese, Net Wt 16 oz (1 lb) 453g. UPC 0 78742-01512 5. Refrigerate after Opening. Distributed By: Walmart Inc., Bentonville, AR 72716 2. Great Value Original Melt'n Dip Easy Melt Cheese, Net Wt 32 oz (2 lbs) 907g. UPC 0 78742-35328 9. Refrigerate after Opening. Distributed By: Walmart Inc., Bentonville, AR 72716 3. SE Grocers Melting American Style Cheese, Net Wt 32 oz (2 lbs) 907g. UPC 0 38259-11152 9. Refrigerated after Opening. Disbributed BY: Southeastern Grocers, 8928 Prominence Pkwy, Bldg 200, Jacksonville, FL 32256
Quoted from the record as published. If a product is not described here, this notice does not tell us whether it was affected.
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.
Regulates most packaged food, drugs and devices. Its recall records are published weekly in the Enforcement Report.
This notice concerns the product line itself or how it was produced.
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.
To see it in the FDA’s own words, search the reference number F-1528-2023 in the Search the FDA Enforcement Report. The FDA publishes no direct link to an individual recall.