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Recall / enforcement

Class I recall: 1) Middlefield Original Cheese Co-op 100% Grass-Fed Pepper Jack Cheese, 8 oz. individual units, 5 lb. loaves, and 40 lb. loaves, packaged i…

ListeriaClosed / historicalSource wording: “Terminated

Recalling firm: Middlefield Original Cheese Cooperative. Reason: Potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes

Reported figures

Illnesses
Hospitalizations
Deaths
Event date
Jul 21, 2025

Figures are as reported by the source at its last update. Blank means the source did not report the figure — not zero.

Geography

States
Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania
Implicated food
1) Middlefield Original Cheese Co-op 100% Grass-Fed Pepper Jack Cheese, 8 oz. individual units, 5 lb. loaves, and 40 lb. loaves, packaged in plastic with lot c…

Multiple states affected. Plotted once per state, at each state's centroid. No exposure location, venue or patient address is stored or shown.

Source

Source
openFDA Food Enforcement Reports
Source record
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/ires/ (id H-0528-2025)
Published
Sep 3, 2025
Source last updated
Aug 25, 2025
Update cadence
Weekly
First ingested
Aug 10, 2026
Last seen in source
Aug 10, 2026

Data caveat: Enforcement reports describe a firm's recall of a product; they are not outbreak reports. Distribution states are what the firm reported and do not indicate where illness occurred. Records are added after FDA classification, so recent recalls may be missing.

Revision history

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