May contain small pieces of metal.
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 Hp Hood Llc.
4% Cottage Cheese distributed under the following labels and sizes: (a) Hannaford brand Cottage Cheese, 4% milkfat, small curd, NET WT. 24 OZ (680g), UPC 041268114504, DISTRIBUTED BY: HANNAFORD BROS. CO., SCARBOROUGH, ME 04074; (b) Weis brand SMALL CURD original cottage cheese, 4% MILKFAT MIN., NET WT 24 OZ (1 LB 8 OZ) 680g, UPC 041497096855, PACKED FOR WEIS MARKETS, INC., SUNBURY, PA 17801; (c) Big Y brand Small Curd Cottage Cheese, 4% MILK FAT MIN, NET WT 24 OZ (680g), UPC 018894300984, DISTRIBUTED BY BIG Y FOODS, INC., SPRINGFIELD, MA 01104; (d) Shurfine brand SMALL CURD Cottage Cheese, 4% MILKFAT, NET WT 24 OZ (1LB 8 OZ) 680g, UPC 015400832984, Distributed By: Western Family Foods, Inc. Portland, OR 97208; (e) Friendly Farms brand Small Curd Cottage Cheese, 4% MILKFAT MINIMUM, NET WT 24 OZ (1 LB 8 OZ) 680g, UPC 041498192174, Distributed by ALDI, Inc., Batavia, IL 60510.
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 middle class: use of the product may cause temporary or medically reversible health consequences, and the probability of serious harm is remote.
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-1472-2013 in the Search the FDA Enforcement Report. The FDA publishes no direct link to an individual recall.