Cheese

  • Potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes
  • Company: Middlefield Original Cheese Co-op
  • Food & Beverages, Cheese/Cheese Product
  • FDA
  • August 18, 2025

Product details

  • Cheese

Company announcement

Middlefield Original Cheese Co-Op is recalling cheese products due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.

The recalled products were distributed in Ohio between July 14, 2025, and August 7, 2025.

There have been no reports of illness to date associated with consumption of these products.

Risk:

Listeria monocytogenes can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain, and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.

Impacted states: OH

Products:

- Middlefield Original Cheese Co-op 100% Grass-Fed Pepper Jack Cheese, 8 oz. packages, 5 Lb. loaves, and 40 Lb. loaves

- Copia Collective 100% Grass-Fed Pepper Jack Cheese, 8 oz. packages

- Middlefield Original Cheese Co-op Horseradish Flavored Cheese, 8 oz. packages

- Middlefield Original Cheese Co-op Monterey Jack Cheese, 8 oz. packages and 5 lb blocks

- Middlefield Original Cheese Co-op Monterey Jack Cheese 40 lb. blocks

- Farmers Cheese 8 oz. packages and 5 lb blocks

- Farmers Cheese 40 lb. blocks

- White Cheddar Cheese sold in 40 Lb. loaves

Contact

For more information, call 440-632-5567.

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