Green Cedar Ackawi cheese in small clear plastic shrink wrapped packaging bearing a sell by date of March 26

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Green Cedar Ackawi cheese in small clear plastic shrink wrapped packaging bearing a sell by date of March 26, 2019 or later. The sell by date is on a white sticker on the back of the product. , Keep Refrigerated Harb Dairy, Inc. DBA Green Cedar Dairy · reported 2018-12-12

Terminated This recall has been closed out by the agency.

Reason for recall: Harb Dairy dba Green Cedar Dairy initiated a voluntary recall of Ackawi cheese following notification by U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development that the product was positive for Listeria monocytogenes.
Classification: Class I
Recall initiated: 2018-11-14
Reported by the agency: 2018-12-12
Closed out (terminated): 2019-05-20
Recalling firm: Harb Dairy, Inc. DBA Green Cedar Dairy
Dearborn, MI
United States
This is the firm that issued the recall — commonly a distributor or processor. It is not the origin of contamination.
Distribution (the agency's own words): Michigan only
States we parsed from that text: MI
The agency named these states. Parse method explicit_state_list, confidence high.
Food category: Dairyderived
Assigned by a reviewed keyword rulebook over the product description, not by the agency.
Recall type: Voluntary: Firm initiated
Recall number: F-0751-2019

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