Kraft recalls cottage cheese due to poor storage

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

NORTHFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Kraft Foods Group is recalling some of its cottage cheese products, company officials announced Saturday.

Some ingredients used in Knudsen Cottage Cheese, Breakstone's Cottage Cheese, Simply Kraft Cottage Cheese and Daily Chef Cottage Cheese were not stored in accordance with proper temperature standards at a Tulare, California, manufacturing facility, they said.

While unlikely, the failure to properly store ingredients might have created conditions that could lead to premature spoilage and food-borne illness, Kraft said. The Northfield, Illinois, company voluntarily recalled 1.2 million cases of the cottage cheese as a precaution.

The products, with a coded date between May 9 and July 23 stamped on them, were only shipped to stores in the United States. The codes can be found on the cup bottoms or on top of the packages.

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[Overseas]

1. K&R.

[gvstn]

2. I got sick on cottage cheese once, it is no fun.

It was a "fresh" unopened container that had a full month before the expiration date. I ate about 8oz. and got sick within half an hour and stayed sick for two days.

As with any food poisoning item, I lost my taste for cottage cheese. About ten years later, I was past my aversion and started buying it once in a while. My new favorite brand is Breakstone small curd. Yikes! Close call. Thanks for the heads up.