Twin Sisters Creamery Whatcom Blue cheese, 2.5lb. round cheese wheel, made with raw milk…
Twin Sisters Creamery, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 26 November 2025 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Raw milk Whatcom Blue cheese is recalled due to E. coli O103:H2.
The record
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- Product
- Twin Sisters Creamery Whatcom Blue cheese, 2.5lb. round cheese wheel, made with raw milk and aged at minimum of 60 days. Ingredients: cultured raw cow's milk, salt, enzymes, penicillium roqueforti. Made in Ferndale, WA. www.twinsisterscreamery.com.
- Reason for recall
- Raw milk Whatcom Blue cheese is recalled due to E. coli O103:H2.
- Recalling firm
- Twin Sisters Creamery, LLC
- Firm location
- Ferndale, Washington, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- H-0193-2026
- Quantity
- 3438.20 lbs.
- Distribution
- Distributed in OR and WA
- Initiated
- 24 October 2025
- Reported by FDA
- 26 November 2025
- Terminated
- 16 June 2026
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- #450 Made on 5/27/2025 - Batch Code 250527B Sell by 2/21/2026 #452 Made on 6/10/2025 - Batch Code 250610B Sell by 3/7/2026 #454 Made on 6/18/2025 - Batch Code 250618B Sell by 3/15/2026 #455 Made on 6/24/2025 - Batch Code 250624B Sell by 3/21/2026 #456 Made on 7/01/2025 - Batch Code 250701B Sell by 3/28/2026 #459 Made on 7/22/2025 - Batch Code 250722B Sell by 4/18/2026 Letter B indicates product is Whatcom Blue.
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class I means the FDA judged a reasonable probability that the product would cause serious health consequences or death. The class is assigned by an agency health hazard evaluation under 21 CFR 7.41, not by the firm.
- The firm started this recall itself. Most FDA food recalls are voluntary, and a recall is a food safety plan working rather than failing. The circumstances in which the agency asks for one instead are set out in 21 CFR 7.45.
- This is one of 4 records covering the same recall event. The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so a recall of a product line appears here many times. Counting these records as 4 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 4. Every product code in this event is listed together on the record that covers the whole recall, which is the page a search engine is pointed to for all 4 of them.
- The recall ran for 8 months, from 24 October 2025 to termination on 16 June 2026. Termination means the agency judged that all reasonable effort had been made, under 21 CFR 7.55, and it says nothing about whether product remained in circulation.
- The distribution pattern names 1 state, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of cheese run a median of 7 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Cheese dominates Listeria recalls among dairy products because soft and semi-soft varieties hold enough moisture for the organism to grow at refrigeration temperature, and because most are eaten without any further cooking step.
What this recall was for
E. coli
Shiga toxin-producing E. coli recalls concentrate in foods eaten raw or lightly cooked, where no step in the process is hot enough or long enough to be a kill step.
A preventive controls plan covers E. coli contamination under the clauses below. This is where the control belongs, not a finding against any firm named on this page: a recall record states a reason, and most of these recalls were initiated by the firm itself.
- 21 CFR 117.135(c)(1)
- Process controls: the controls that apply a treatment, such as a validated kill step, at the point where it reduces the hazard to a safe level.
- 21 CFR 117 subpart G
- Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
- 21 CFR 120
- Juice HACCP: the hazard analysis and critical control point system required for juice processors, including a treatment achieving a 5-log pathogen reduction.
Filed under cheese, milk and dairy and spices and seasonings. A product can sit in more than one.
Other cheese recalls for the same reason
These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food, recalled for a hazard this record also names. Unlike the firm’s own records below, they come from different companies, which is what makes them a pattern rather than a history.
Other records from Twin Sisters Creamery, LLC
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
All 4 records for Twin Sisters Creamery, LLC
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21 CFR 117.135(c)(1) is the clause behind this recall, and it is one somebody has to produce evidence for at their next audit. Krolda maps supplier documents to the clause they satisfy in FSSC 22000, IFS Food and 21 CFR 117, and routes the corrective action when the evidence is missing.
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