Cheese recall reaches Class I danger level

By Christy Solo – Editor

Several thousand containers of grated cheese which were recalled in Nov. 2025 due to listeria concerns have been bumped up to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s most high-risk recall category.

The recall is now a Class I recall. What this means: there is a “reasonable probability” that the use of, or exposure to, the product could cause “serious adverse health consequences or death.”

The pecorino romano cheese products were…