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If you recently purchased any bags of shredded cheese at Walmart, Target, Publix, Aldi, or another retailer, you might want to check them. The reason for that is because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a recall this week of more than 1.5 million of those bags.
The FDA assigned a risk classification this week to a previous voluntary recall by Great Lakes Cheese Co. Inc. The voluntary recall was first received by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration back on Oct. 3 due to certain cheese products potentially containing metal fragments from “supplier raw material.”
This week the shredded cheese recall was given a Class II designation by the FDA. That classification means it is “a situation in which use of or exposure to a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences.” It does, however, also state that the potential for serious injury is remote.
The shredded cheese products sold by the Ohio-based company were distributed to 31 states and Puerto Rico. More than 263,000 cases of shredded cheese are involved in the recall. Each case contains between four and 12 bags.
Full list of bags of shredded cheese being recalled
Over 235,000 cases of low-moisture part-skim shredded mozzarella from the following brands were recalled: Always Save, Borden, Brookshire’s, Cache Valley Creamery, Chestnut Hill, Coburn Farms, Econo, Food Club, Food Lion, Gold Rush Creamery, Good & Gather, Great Lakes Cheese, Happy Farms by Aldi, H-E-B, Hill Country Fare, Know & Love, Laura Lynn, Lucerne Dairy Farms, Nu Farm, Publix, Schnuck’s, Simply Go, Sprouts Farmers Market, Stater Bros. Markets, and Sunnyside Farms.
In addition to those…
• 15,490 cases of Italian-style shredded cheese blend under the brand names Brookshire’s, Cache Valley Creamery, Coburn Farms, Great Value, Know & Love, Laura Lynn, Publix, Simply Go, and Happy Farms by Aldi.
• 4,298 cases of pizza-style shredded cheese blend by Food Club, Econo, Gold Rush Creamery, Great Value, Laura Lynn, and Simply Go.
• 4,131 cases of mozzarella and provolone shredded cheese blend by Freedom’s Choice, Good & Gather, Great Lakes Cheese, and Great Value.
• 1,900 cases of Happy Farms by Aldi Italian Style shredded cheese blend.
• 1,850 cases of Target’s Good & Gather mozzarella & parmesan shredded cheese blend.
• 117 cases of Food Club finely shredded pizza-style four-cheese blend.
The recalled bags of cheese have sell-by dates ranging from January to late March 2026. Consumers who are in possession of any of the affected bags are urged to throw them away or return them to the place of purchase for a refund.