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WFM Purchasing, LP recalls Whatcom Blue Sliced cheese; Sliced and packaged in deli plastic wrap with Whole Foods Sca…

Terminated FDA Recall Class I Biological

Read the agency's notice · machine-readable source record · Agency id: 97931

What the agency said

Product
Whatcom Blue Sliced cheese; Sliced and packaged in deli plastic wrap with Whole Foods Scale labels.
Firm: WFM Purchasing, LP
Reason, as written
Twin Sisters Creamery's recall of cheese products due to WSDA testing that identified potential STEC and E. coli O103 contamination. Whole Foods Market received affected products through distributor Peterson Company and sold them by weight with store-generated labels.
Status, as written
Terminated
Distribution, as written
Washington and Oregon

How this record is classified

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Hazard type
Biological
Inferred from the agency's wording by our rules
Organism, allergen, or material
E. coli (STEC), Milk, Plastic or rubber
Inferred from the agency's wording by our rules (Organism, Allergen, Foreign material)
Product category
Prepared foods
Inferred from the agency's wording by our rules · food tags: deli meat, dairy, ready-to-eat meals
Geography
Multi-state
Inferred from the agency's wording by our rules
OR, WA
Root cause
Not stated
Not stated by the agency
How it was found
Not stated
Not stated by the agency
Corrective action
Voluntary recall
Stated by the agency
Voluntary: Firm initiated; customers first notified by Other
Status
Terminated
Closed in this dataset's terms
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Dates
Recall began: Oct 27, 2025
Reported by agency: Dec 3, 2025
Last agency update: Nov 25, 2025
Closed: Feb 6, 2026

What is missing or inferred

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Record history

First seen by this site Sep 17, 2026, 2:29 PM UTC (loaded from the agency's history when the dataset was first built). Last changed Sep 17, 2026, 2:29 PM UTC. No tracked field has changed since.

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