Item# 29608 Farmhouse White, Twin Sisters Creamery brand, product is packed in Cryovac…
Peterson Company Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 26 November 2025 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Item #29608 Farmhouse White is recalled due to E. coli O103:H2.
The record
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- Product
- Item# 29608 Farmhouse White, Twin Sisters Creamery brand, product is packed in Cryovac and each package weighs 5oz-6oz. This cheese is made from raw milk. Ingredients: cultured raw cow's milk, salt, enzymes, penicillium roqueforti. Made by Twin Sisters Creamery in Ferndale, WA. Distributed by Peterson Company of Auburn, WA.
- Reason for recall
- Item #29608 Farmhouse White is recalled due to E. coli O103:H2.
- Recalling firm
- Peterson Company Inc
- Firm location
- Auburn, Washington, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- H-0198-2026
- Quantity
- 18 cases (16 pieces per case) or 288 pieces
- Distribution
- Press release indicates products were distributed in CO, ID, OR, and WA. Firm confirmed no product was distributed in CO.
- Initiated
- 25 October 2025
- Reported by FDA
- 26 November 2025
- Terminated
- 1 April 2026
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- MFG Code 726511 MFG Code 738511 MFG Code 752511 MFG Code 765511 726511 = cut on 8/14/2025 738511 = cut on 8/26/2025 752511 = cut on 9/9/2025 765511 = cut on 9/22/2025
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 2 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 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. 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 2 of them.
- The recall ran for 5 months, from 25 October 2025 to termination on 1 April 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 2 states, 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 shorter than usual 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: Idaho, Oregon. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
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 Peterson Company Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-26 | Item# 28855 Whatcom Blue, Twin Sisters Creamery brand, product is packed in Cryovac and each package weighs 5oz-6oz. There are 16 pieces per case. This cheese is made from raw milk. Ingredients: cultured raw cow's milk, salt, enzymes, penicillium roqueforti. Made by Twin Sisters Creamery in Ferndale, WA. Distributed by Peterson Company of Auburn, WA. | Peterson Company Inc | Item #28855 Whatcom Blue is recalled due to E. coli O103:H2 | Class I |
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