Oh, wow. The FDA still exists.
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sold in 31 states
Such as?
sold under private store-brand labels at several retailers, including Target, Walmart and Aldi.
And the rest are?
https://parade.com/food/cheese-recall-aldi-target-walmart-december2025 This article's a little more extensive. It's weird apnews didn't link to the fda report that briantheebiscuiteer linked to, since that has the actual actionable info people would need.
This is pretty surprising as almost every food factory that I know of (a lot) has metal detectors just prior to final boxing (called "case packing" in the industry).
AMA for any food production related questions
Until the detectors break and management just says keep going until that part shows up.
I'm not saying that would never happen, because I'm sure it has. However, most places would have a spare metal detector unit just in case this type of thing happened.
What is probably more likely is that the factory did not have a very frequent test cycle for their metal detector. Which means, the metal detector could have been broken for a long time and nobody noticed it. Given enough time, something is going to happen and the product could have become contaminated with metal shavings.
… I don’t want to know. I want to like food.
Then you'll be happy to know that - for the most part - the vast majority of food manufacturers are trying to provide a quality product at the price point they're targeting. Meaning... You get what you pay for.
It's extremely rare to find an absolutely nasty factory out there. They do exist, but the norm is perfectly fine.
I appreciate what you're trying to do here, but I just can't seem to believe that most food factories are "perfectly fine".
Especially right now in the US with our way of letting the food industry basically regulate itself.
Yes yes yes. But how can we blame someone? Preferably a conservative someone?!
Would you eat the things you make?
What a great article about a public health concern that gives literally no information about how to identify said cheeses
https://www.today.com/food/recall/shredded-cheese-recall-december-2025-rcna247037
Also a better article. Geez AP did you go all AI already?
Run a magnet through your cheese before you eat it.
That only helps to find ferrous metals.
Most food production equipment is stainless, and not very magnetic if at all.
Fine, I'll give it the tongue test and aggressively mash each bite into the roof of my mouth before I swallow it.
So I'm guessing some of the processing equipment broke or was breaking resulting in contamination. Because the web page does not like my phone.
Yeah. If some piece of junk accidentally makes it into the shredder machine, it's probably going to get shredded along with the cheese.
How does that happen, you ask? If a box on the line catches a piece of a machine, it could break it off. Or if something comes in boxes and gets dumped right in, if the packer put their box cutter down in the wrong spot, it's getting packed in, and will be shredded with the cheese.
This stuff happens all the time, because shit happens. Most of the time it gets caught.
FDA/USDA is a goddamn fucking joke. They consider themselves “industry partners”.
I can't believe nobody realizes this is Trump's doing. He wants to Make America Grate Again.
Now with added iron!
I wonder if this is the same exact cheese recall from a couple months ago. I remember seeing half the cheese section at my walmart gone with recall tags. They were back in like 3 days.
Not providing a link to the actual FDA recall report takes this article from potentially helpful to inept fear/ragebaiting. This article has no actionable details in it at all. It's only function is to drive clicks and generate engagement.
I found the above link in another article on the subject. I know nothing of that news site, but at least they took the time to repeat and summarize the important details and present them in a format that is easier to read than the FDA site.
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