Food FDA Class I Terminated Pathogen contamination
Whatcom Blue Sliced cheese; Sliced and packaged in deli plastic wrap with Whole Foods Scale labels.
WFM Purchasing, LP Published Dec 3, 2025
Risk level
Class IDangerous or defective — could cause serious health problems or death.
Severity score 90/100
What should you do?
- Check whether you have this product, using the lot codes, UPCs, and dates listed below.
- Do not eat, serve, or sell the affected product.
- Return it to the place of purchase for a refund, or throw it away in a sealed bag so people and animals can’t get to it.
- Contact WFM Purchasing, LP or your place of purchase with questions, and see the source record below for full details.
Reason for recall
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.
Hazards
Escherichia coli O157:H7 · primaryE. coli O103
Affected products (1)
Whatcom Blue Sliced cheese; Sliced and packaged in deli plastic wrap with Whole Foods Scale labels.
411 lbs total
Code info: PLU 20667900000 Sell-by Date: 10/27/2025 11/16/2025
Affected areas
OregonWashington
Timeline
- InitiatedOct 27, 2025
- PublishedDec 3, 2025
- TerminatedFeb 6, 2026
- Recall number
- H-0210-2026
- Agency
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Country
- US
FDA records come from the openFDA food enforcement-report dataset — the agency's full weekly enforcement list. Most entries are not issued as consumer press releases, so they won't appear on fda.gov/recalls or in a web search. The source record link above resolves this exact recall by its number.