Recall expands to 12,000 tubs

Cottage cheese is having a weirdly bad spring. The latest problem is not bacteria or a labeling slip — it’s metal. Albertsons has recalled 12,222 tubs of Lucerne 2% cottage(sg.news.yahoo.com) because this is the kind of recall that turns an ordinary grocery item into an injury risk fast. (sg.news.yahoo.com) ties it to a best-before date of March 31, 2026. The issue was logged as “metal fragments,” which is a much more concrete problem than the vague “potential foreign object” language shoppers often see first. (sg.news.yahoo.com) ### What kind of metal are we talking about? Turns out the FDA enforcement details get pretty specific. The suspected object is described as a hard, curled stainless-steel spring, with a coil width of about 25.38 mm and a cross-sectional thickness of about 2.27 mm. The spring ends were described as not sharp unless broken or cut — which is not exactly comforting, but it does help explain why the recall was classified the way it was. (uk.marketscreener.com) ### Where was it sold? This was a five-state recall. The tubs were distributed in Alaska, California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. That makes this a regional supermarket problem, not a nationwide one, but (sg.news.yahoo.com)he West could plausibly have had one in the fridge. (sg.news.yahoo.com) ### How serious is the FDA treating it? The FDA classified it as a Class II recall. Basically, that means the agency sees a realistic chance of temporary or medically reversible harm, but not the highest level of life-threatening danger. That fits the scenario here — foreign metal in soft dairy is serious, but it is not the same risk profile as, say, botulism or confirmed listeria contamination in a ready-to-eat food. (uk.marketscreener.com) ### Why does this feel like part of a pattern? Because cottage cheese has already been in recall headlines this year. In February, Saputo Cheese USA recalled several Great Value cottage cheese products sold through Walmart(sg.news.yahoo.com)a cottage cheese and sour cream tied to the same plant-code issue. Those were not metal-fragment cases — they were under-pasteurization cases — but for shoppers the effect is the same: another basic dairy item suddenly becomes something to check lot codes on. (fda.gov) ### Wha(uk.marketscreener.com)hrow it out or return it to the store. And if you bought cottage cheese recently from Walmart or Clover Sonoma, it is worth checking those products too, because the earlier 2026 recalls involved different brands and a different hazard. (uk.marketscreener.com) ### Why do these details matter? Recall notices often sound interchangeable, but the mechanism matters. A pasteurization failure points to microbial risk. A metal-frag(fda.gov) (uk.marketscreener.com) ### Bottom line? This one is narrow but real. Albertsons’ Lucerne recall affects one specific cottage cheese product in five Western states, but it adds to a drumbeat of dairy recalls that has made “check the tub” a pretty sensible rule this year. (sg.news.yahoo.com)