Month: August 2012

Cheese lovers, rejoice!  Dubliner, America's favorite Kerrygold cheese and the flagship of the Kerrygold brand, now comes in a reduced-fat version. Kerrygold Reduced Fat Dubliner delivers all the flavor of the original, full-fat Dubliner, for 30 fewer calories and 33% less fat per 1-ounce serving. …

Holland's Family Cheese won an array of awards at the American Cheese Society's annual competition in Raleigh, North Carolina over the weekend including first-place honors for Marieke Foenegreek Gouda in the Open Category For All Cheeses With Flavor Added – All Milk Types. This raw, cow's milk beauty is a crowd favorite and boasts a creamy mouthfeel with sweet, maple finishing notes on your palate. In addition to the prize for Foenegreek Gouda, Holland's Family Cheese received the following awards: …

Tomales Bay Foods, Inc., Petaluma, CA, a cheese distribution company, is recalling all partial wheels of two cheeses distributed by Tomales Bay Foods Inc., due to an abundance of caution because of possible contamination by Listeria monocytogenes, 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. …

The Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) advises consumers that they should not eat certain foods from the Market Pantry and Archer Farms Deli Salad lines. The products are sold at Target stores, and are being voluntarily recalled because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. …