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Sierra Nevada Cheese Company, Inc recalls SIERRA NEVADA CHEESE GRAZIERS RAW MILK SHARP CHEDDAR NET WT. 40 LBS Item 6516

Ongoing FDA Recall Biological

Read the agency's notice · machine-readable source record · Agency id: 99986

What the agency said

Product
SIERRA NEVADA CHEESE GRAZIERS RAW MILK SHARP CHEDDAR NET WT. 40 LBS Item 6516
Firm: Sierra Nevada Cheese Company, Inc
Reason, as written
Potential contamination due to E. coli O26:H11.
Status, as written
Ongoing
Distribution, as written
Domestic: AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, IN, MD, NJ, OR, TX, WA, WI. Foreign: Not applicable.

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)
Inferred from the agency's wording by our rules (Organism)
Product category
Dairy
Inferred from the agency's wording by our rules · food tags: dairy, raw milk
Geography
Multi-state
Inferred from the agency's wording by our rules
AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, IN, MD, NJ, OR, TX, WA, WI
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 Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Status
Ongoing
Open in this dataset's terms
An administrative status: it tracks whether the agency has formally closed the record, not whether the product is still on shelves. Recalls often stay open for years after the food is gone.
Dates
Recall began: Sep 24, 2026
Reported by agency: Oct 14, 2026
Last agency update: —

What is missing or inferred

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Record history

First seen by this site Oct 21, 2026, 4:56 AM UTC. Last changed Oct 21, 2026, 4:56 AM UTC. No tracked field has changed since.

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