Aldi shredded cheese recalled for metal contamination

If you’ve purchased shredded cheese from Aldi recently, you might want to double check the brand.

The Happy Farms by ALDI Colby Jack (a blend of Colby & Monterey Jack finely shredded cheeses) that has best-buy dates listed as July 13 and 14 have been recalled by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration due to possible metal contamination.

Four states — including Pennsylvania — are being affected, as 400 cases, or 4,800 individual pouches, were delivered to Connecticut, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, People reported.

The FDA issued a Class II recall notice March 19 on Great Lakes Cheese Co. Inc., the parent company that produces one of the grocery chain’s generic cheeses, People said. The recall was voluntarily initiated by Great Lakes Cheese on Feb. 15.

The reason for the recall is listed as a “potential foreign material” contamination in the product, specifically “stainless steel fragments,” according to the report.

Labeled a Class II recall, coming into contact with or being exposed to the shredded cheese may “cause temporary or medically reversible” health consequences, but the chances of a person becoming seriously harmed are minimal, People said.

Any customers who have the shredded cheese should not consume it further — and instead, throw it away, according to People.