This product was offered for sale by independent grocers in Illinios, three in Wisconsin and one in Indiana. Anyone who has any of these cheese products should destroy them or return them to the store for a full refund. The Listeria organism can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, elderly people and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as fever, headache, stiffness, abdominal pain, nausea and diarrhea.
Listeria infection can also cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
No complaints or reports of illness have been reported. The recall is the result of surveillance sampling conducted by the State of North Carolina and the State of Illinois. Follow-up sampling by at the company revealed that some of the codes of the finished products contained the bacteria.