WFM Purchasing, LP food recall: Whatcom Blue Sliced cheese
Key facts
- Agency
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Program
- Food
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Event ID
- 97931
- Recall initiated
- Oct 27, 2025
- Classified by FDA
- Nov 25, 2025
- Posted in Enforcement Report
- Dec 3, 2025
- Terminated
- Feb 6, 2026
- Recalling firm
- WFM Purchasing, LP
- Firm location
- Austin, TX, United States
- Initiated by
- Voluntary: Firm initiated
- Firm notified customers by
- Other
- Products in this event
- 2
What to do
Compare the product name, size, UPC, lot codes and dates below with the product you have. If it matches, do not eat it. Follow the firm's instructions to return it or throw it away.
Reason for recall
Twin Sisters Creamery's recall of cheese products due to WSDA testing that identified potential STEC and E. coli O103 contamination. Whole Foods Market received affected products through distributor Peterson Company and sold them by weight with store-generated labels.
What the classification means
- Class I: FDA's most serious category: there is a reasonable probability that using or being exposed to the product will cause serious health problems or death.
About this recall
The firm started this recall on Oct 27, 2025. FDA classified it 29 days later, on Nov 25, 2025. This recall event covers 2 separate products, each with its own FDA recall number. Distribution reported by FDA: Washington and Oregon WFM Purchasing, LP has 5 recalls in our records.
Recalled products (2)
H-0210-2026 Class I Terminated
Whatcom Blue Sliced cheese; Sliced and packaged in deli plastic wrap with Whole Foods Scale labels.
Codes / lots: PLU 20667900000 Sell-by Date: 10/27/2025 11/16/2025
Quantity: 411 lbs total
H-0211-2026 Class I Terminated
Whatcom Farmhouse- Sliced and packaged in deli plastic wrap with Whole Foods Scale labels.
Codes / lots: PLU 22386900000 Sell-by Date: 10/27/2025 11/16/2025
Quantity: 411 lbs. total
Source and freshness
- Source
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Enforcement Report, via the openFDA food enforcement dataset
- Official notice
- FDA Enforcement Report, event 97931
- Raw record
- openFDA API (JSON)
- Dataset last updated by FDA
- Nov 3, 2026
- Imported by RecallRadar
- Nov 4, 2026
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