Cheddar Conventional (bulk)
Food recall F-0927-2024. Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on Feb 7, 2024.
- FDA Class I
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The short answer
Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on Feb 7, 2024. Copied from openFDA on Oct 20, 2026.
- Class I FDA’s most serious class (needs attention)
- Ongoing its status, in FDA’s file
- 20 states named in where it went
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?
Class I, the most serious of FDA’s three classes.
“Dangerous or defective products that predictably could cause serious health problems or death. Examples include: food found to contain botulinum toxin, food with undeclared allergens, a label mix-up on a lifesaving drug, or a defective artificial heart valve.”
openFDA, in plain words, its enforcement report fields.
“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.”
FDA’s rule, 21 CFR 7.3(m)(1), eCFR.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
What’s wrong with it?
Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Which ones are recalled?
Cheddar Conventional (bulk)
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Codes to check against yours
PLU Batch ID 40456 1DZ-23307 40456 2DY-23307 40456 3DX-23307 40456 4CW-23307 40456 4DW-23307 40455 3EZ-23314 40455 4EY-23314 40456 1BX-23315 40456 2BW-23315 40456 3AZ-23315 40456 4BY-23315 40456 1DZ-23322 40456 2DY-23322 40456 3DX-23322…
Every code shown here, 636 characters
PLU Batch ID 40456 1DZ-23307 40456 2DY-23307 40456 3DX-23307 40456 4CW-23307 40456 4DW-23307 40455 3EZ-23314 40455 4EY-23314 40456 1BX-23315 40456 2BW-23315 40456 3AZ-23315 40456 4BY-23315 40456 1DZ-23322 40456 2DY-23322 40456 3DX-23322 40456 4CW-23322 40456 1DZ-23335 40456 2DY-23335 40456 3DX-23335 40456 4CW-23335 40455 1DX-23342 40455 2DW-23342 40455 3DZ-23342 40455 4CY-23342 40456 1EX-23342 40456 2EW-23342 40456 3EZ-23342 40456 4DY-23342 40456 1DW-23349 40456 1EZ-23349 40456 2EY-23349 40456 3EX-23349 40456 1DW-23353 40456 2DZ-23353 40456 3DY-23353 40456 4CX-23353 40455 1DZ-24017 40455 2DY-24017 40455 3DX-24017 40455 4EW-24017
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.
U.S. distribution to the following: AR, AZ, BC, CA, CO, FL, GA, IA, IL, KS, MD, NC,NJ, NV, NY, OR, RI, TX, UT, VA, WA, W No foreign distribution.
The states and territories these words name
20 states and territories.
Every one of them
- Arkansas
- Arizona
- California
- Colorado
- Florida
- Georgia
- Iowa
- Illinois
- Kansas
- Maryland
- North Carolina
- New Jersey
- Nevada
- New York
- Oregon
- Rhode Island
- Texas
- Utah
- Virginia
- Washington
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 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 Jan 11, 2024.
- FDA classified it on Feb 23, 2024.
- FDA’s Enforcement Report published it on Feb 7, 2024.
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Who is recalling it?
- Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc. dba Don Francisco Cheese, of Modesto, 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 14, 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.
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