Great Value Cottage Cheese Small Curd 4% Milkfat NET WT 16oZ UPC 0 78742 37235 8; 24oz…

SAPUTO CHEESE USA, INC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 25 March 2026 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Potentially under pasteurized. The firm was notified by the California Department of Agriculture that due to the broken seal on the pasteurizer, the products may be under pasteurized, and they should recall the products.

The record

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Product

Great Value Cottage Cheese Small Curd 4% Milkfat NET WT 16oZ UPC 0 78742 37235 8; 24oz UPC 0 78742 37236 5 & 3lb UPC 0 78742 14797 0 DISTRIBUTED BY: Walmart Inc., Bentonville, AR 72716

UPC

078742372358

Reason for recall

Potentially under pasteurized. The firm was notified by the California Department of Agriculture that due to the broken seal on the pasteurizer, the products may be under pasteurized, and they should recall the products.

Recalling firm

SAPUTO CHEESE USA, INC

Firm location

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

H-0583-2026

Quantity

1,947cs/6/16oz tubs, 1,844cs/12/24oz tubs & 4,689 cs/4/3lb tubs

Distribution

Product was shipped to the following states: AL, AZ, CA, IL, MO, MS, NM, NV, UT, WA & WY.

Initiated

21 February 2026

Reported by FDA

25 March 2026

Terminated

1 June 2026

Firm notified by

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Product codes

16oz Tub: BEST IF USED BY APR-02-26 PLT #06-71 24oz tub: BEST IF USED BY APR-03-26 PLT# 06-71 3LB TUB: BEST IF USED BY APR-01-26 B2 PLT#06-71 & BEST IF USED BY APR-02-26 B3 PLT# 06-71

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

• Class II means the FDA judged a remote probability of serious harm, or a probability of temporary or medically reversible harm. 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 5 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 5 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 5. All 5 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 3 months, from 21 February 2026 to termination on 1 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 8 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: Arizona, California, Illinois, Missouri, Mississippi, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

Filed under cheese. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 5 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 4 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.

Other cheese recalls

These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. 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 SAPUTO CHEESE USA, INC

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 22 other records name this firm.

All 23 records for Saputo Cheese USA, Inc.

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