SIERRA NEVADA CHEESE GRAZIERS RAW MILK SHARP CHEDDAR
Food recall. Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on Oct 14, 2026.
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The short answer
Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on Oct 14, 2026. Copied from openFDA on Oct 21, 2026.
- Not yet classified by FDA
- Ongoing its status, in FDA’s file
- 13 states named in where it went
- 1,373 lbs (40 lbs/unit) how much, in FDA’s words
Every line below is in FDA’s own words, with its source beside it. FDA’s terms are explained in FDA’s own words.
How serious is it, by FDA’s class?
Not yet classified by FDA (FDA’s record says “Not Yet Classified”).
When FDA classifies a recall, its class says how serious FDA judges the product’s risk. FDA’s three classes, in its own words:
“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.”
21 CFR 7.3(m), FDA’s rule on recalls.
“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.”
21 CFR 7.3(m), FDA’s rule on recalls.
“Class III is a situation in which use of, or exposure to, a violative product is not likely to cause adverse health consequences.”
21 CFR 7.3(m), FDA’s rule on recalls.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
What’s wrong with it?
Potential contamination due to E. coli O26:H11.
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 21, 2026. Updated weekly.
Which ones are recalled?
SIERRA NEVADA CHEESE GRAZIERS RAW MILK SHARP CHEDDAR NET WT. 40 LBS Item 6516
1,373 lbs (40 lbs/unit), in FDA’s words.
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 21, 2026. Updated weekly.
Codes to check against yours
Lot: 00116265; 00310265; 00317261; 00512264; 00923252; 00926251; 01002251; 01010252; 01021251; 01031254; 01107253; 01205254; 01230254.
Copied exactly as FDA lists them: lot and serial numbers, dates and other codes on the product or its label.
Where did it go?
FDA’s words for the “general area of initial distribution”: where the firm first shipped it.
Domestic: AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, IN, MD, NJ, OR, TX, WA, WI. Foreign: Not applicable.
The states and territories these words name
13 states and territories.
Every one of them
- Arizona
- California
- Colorado
- Florida
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Maryland
- New Jersey
- Oregon
- Texas
- Washington
- Wisconsin
The words say it went outside the United States too.
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 21, 2026. Updated weekly.
Is it still going on?
Ongoing, in FDA’s file.
“A recall which is currently in progress.”
openFDA, on “On-Going”, its enforcement report fields.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
- The firm began the recall on Sep 24, 2026.
- FDA’s Enforcement Report published it on Oct 14, 2026.
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 21, 2026. Updated weekly.
Who is recalling it?
- Sierra Nevada Cheese Company, Inc, of Willows, CA.
- Who began it, in FDA’s words: Voluntary: Firm initiated.
- How the firm first told its customers: Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit.
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 21, 2026. Updated weekly.
What this record can’t tell you
- Whether your own one is affected: compare the codes, dates and numbers above with yours. When unsure, ask the firm or the store.
- Where it went after the firm’s first shipments. FDA’s words cover the firm’s initial distribution, and, in FDA’s words, “subsequent distribution by the consignees to other parties may not be included.”
- How many have been returned, corrected or destroyed: FDA’s report doesn’t say.
- Whether anyone was hurt or fell ill: the report doesn’t say.
- How current it is: openFDA publishes FDA’s Enforcement Report weekly, after FDA does, and a firm can announce a recall weeks before it appears there. openFDA’s own caution: “This data should not be used as a method to collect data to issue alerts to the public, nor should it be used to track the lifecycle of a recall.”
- Meat, poultry and egg products are recalled by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, not FDA, and its recalls aren’t here yet: see fsis.usda.gov.
- A product with no recall here isn’t safe by that: FDA’s report lists the recalls FDA classified, and when.
Hearth Record wrote these lines; the quotations are FDA’s.
Sources
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Food recall enforcement reports.
Released Oct 21, 2026 and checked Oct 21, 2026. Updated weekly. Public domain (CC0 1.0, openFDA). FDA asks that nothing suggest it endorses this site.
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