Agency classClass IIOur severity:High FDA (Food)·H-0219-2026·Announced 2025-12-10

Pizza style shredded cheese recalled over potential metal fragments from a supplier

Great Lakes Cheese is recalling 4,298 cases of pizza style shredded cheese blend, sold under six brands, over potential metal fragments originating in a supplier raw material.

The agency’s classification

FDA (Food): Class II

Class II is a situation in which use of or exposure to a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences, or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.

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 3/5 (High).

Real risk of harm even if no illness or injury has been reported yet. Stop using the product and follow the agency's guidance.

Our severity reasoning: Scored 3 under the risk-of-harm criterion: metal fragments in a ready-to-eat food are a physical hazard, and no illnesses or injuries are reported.

Plain-English summary

Pizza style shredded cheese blend, containing low-moisture part-skim mozzarella and mild cheddar cheeses, is being recalled. It was packaged in plastic bags under six brands: Econo Pizza Shredded 8 oz (UPC 893800297); Food Club Pizza Style Two Cheese Blend, finely shredded 8 oz (UPC 3680012422), shredded 32 oz square-style bag (UPC 3680044487) and shredded 32 oz tube-style bag (UPC 3680048197); Gold Rush Creamery Pizza Blend shredded 32 oz (UPC 1401401030); Great Value Pizza Blend shredded 8 oz (UPC 538818789); Laura Lynn Pizza Blend finely shredded 8 oz (UPC 8685402132); and Simply Go Pizza Blend Two Cheese Mix classic cut shredded 32 oz (UPC 1015983022).

The recall is a downstream action following potential metal fragments from a supplier raw material.

The recall covers 4,298 cases, each brand carrying its own batch and sell-by codes listed in the enforcement record. Distribution covered Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Puerto Rico. The FDA has classified the action as Class II.

Consumers who have a bag matching one of these brands and codes should not eat it and should follow the retailer's return instructions.

The recalled product

Product: Pizza style shredded cheese blend (containing low-moisture part-skim mozzarella and mild cheddar cheeses), individually packaged in a plastic bag as: 1) Econo Pizza - Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 893800297, 12/case 2) Food Club Pizza Style Two Cheese Blend - Finely Shredded, 8 oz.…
Manufacturer: Great Lakes Cheese Co Inc
Category: Food — Dairy
Hazard: foreign-material
metal-fragments
supplier-recall
Affected units: 4,298

Distribution

Distributed in 32 states:

Part of a larger recall action

This product is one of 7 recalled by Great Lakes Cheese Co Inc 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.

See all 7 products in this recall →

Same manufacturer · Great Lakes Cheese Co Inc

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