{"id":1947,"date":"2024-03-09T12:05:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T12:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/09\/shredded-cheese-recall-over-listeria-concerns-in-15-states-affects-food-maker-sargento\/"},"modified":"2024-03-09T12:05:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T12:05:41","slug":"shredded-cheese-recall-over-listeria-concerns-in-15-states-affects-food-maker-sargento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/09\/shredded-cheese-recall-over-listeria-concerns-in-15-states-affects-food-maker-sargento\/","title":{"rendered":"Shredded cheese recall over listeria concerns in 15 states affects food-maker Sargento"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"\">Sargento is recalling shredded and grated cheese products sold to food service groups in 15 states over concerns the cheeses could be contaminated with listeria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">No Sargento-branded products sold in traditional grocery stores were affected. The recall has been linked to one supplier, California-based Rizo-Lopez Foods Inc., that has also affected numerous other cheese brands.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"\">Sargento released a statement saying its recall impacted \u2018a limited amount\u2019 of its food service and ingredients products. <strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u2018On February 5, out of an abundance of caution, Sargento voluntarily recalled the products that were supplied by Rizo-Lopez Foods Inc. and products that were packaged on the same lines,\u2019 it said. \u2018This recall did not impact Sargento-branded products.\u00a0Sargento immediately terminated its relationship with Rizo-Lopez Foods Inc.\u00a0and immediately notified our customers.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">According to the FDA, the wider Rizo-Lopez recall has resulted in 26 illnesses, including two deaths and 23 hospitalizations as of February 22. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">According to information posted on the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s website, the Sargento-specific recall affects thousands of various cheeses distributed to Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, Nevada, Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The most heavily affected items were white cheddar cheese products, with 2,633 cases being recalled. These had best-by dates of between March and June 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">The recall was initiated Feb. 5.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on NBC NEWS<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sargento is recalling shredded and grated cheese products sold to food service groups in 15 states over concerns the cheeses could be contaminated with listeria. No Sargento-branded products sold in traditional grocery stores were affected. The recall has been linked to one supplier, California-based Rizo-Lopez Foods Inc., that has also affected numerous other cheese brands. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}