Recall of Cheeses due to Potential Listeria 　

Emergency Message System

June 21st, 2023

Cricket Creek Farm Expands Recall of Cheeses Because of Potential Listeria Monocytogenes

Summary

Company Announcement Date: June 15, 2023

FDA Publish Date: June 15, 2023

Product Type: Food & Beverages
Cheese/Cheese Product
Foodborne Illness

Reason for Announcement: Potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes

Company Name: Cricket Creek Farm, LLC

Brand Name: Cricket Creek Farm

Product Description: Sophelise, Tobasi, and Berkshire Bloom Cheeses

Company Announcement

Cricket Creek Farm of Williamstown, MA is expanding their recall of Sophelise and Tobasi cheeses due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes to include one lot of Berkshire Bloom and one lot of Feta cheese because pasteurization records did not illustrate the heating element reached required temperature.

Listeria monocytogenes is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.

Sophelise, Tobasi, Feta and Berkshire Bloom cheeses were distributed in Massachusetts and New York through Wild Oats, Williamstown, MA; Provisions Williamstown, Williamstown, MA; Wells Provisions, Charlemont, MA; McEnroe Organic Farm Market, Millerton, NY; New Lebanon Farmers Market; New Lebanon, NY, at restaurants, and at farmers markets.

Sophelise cheese product code: 087055 is a washed, pasteurized milk cheese with a soft rind and pinkish hue; the circular cheese measures 4 inches in diameter and roughly 1 inch tall. It is sold in semi-transparent packaging with a round blue label. Sophelise was distributed between March 29, 2023 and May 26, 2023.