Whole Foods Recalls Vulto Creamery Raw Milk Cheese for Listeria Risk
Whole Foods Market is recalling Vulto Creamery Hamden raw milk cheese due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.
The agency’s classification
FDA (Food): Class I
Class I is a situation in which there is a reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.
This is the agency’s own classification, taken from its notice. The severity score below is our assessment, not the agency’s. How recall classes work
What this means for you
Our assessment, not the agency’s: severity 5/5 (Critical).
Highest-severity recall. The hazard can cause serious injury or death. Stop using the product now and follow the agency's instructions.
Our severity reasoning: The source text explicitly identifies the agency classification as Class I, which mandates a severity score of 5 according to the rubric.
Plain-English summary
Whole Foods Market is recalling Vulto Creamery Hamden raw milk cheese, cut and wrapped in clear plastic, due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. The product is 15.5 lbs in size and was sold with "sell by" dates ranging from 01/02/2017 to 04/02/2017.
The recall affects consumers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Jersey, and New York. The agency has classified this as a Class I recall, indicating a reasonable probability that the use of, or exposure to, the violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.
Consumers who have purchased this product should stop using it immediately and contact Whole Foods Market for a refund or further instructions.
The recalled product
- Product
- Vulto Creamery Hamden raw milk cheese cut and wrapped in clear plastic
- Manufacturer
- Whole Foods Market
- Category
- Food — Dairy / Cheese
- Hazard
Is your product affected?
Check your packaging against the codes below. If any of them match, the product is part of this recall.
Lot numbers (1)
- "sell by" dates from 01/02/2017 to 04/02/2017.
Distribution
Part of a larger recall action
This product is one of 5 recalled by Whole Foods Market under a single FDA (Food) recall action. The agency files each product separately, so the size of the action is not visible from this page alone.
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