Rizo Bros California Creamery Grated Cotija Whole Milk Cheese, Mexican Style Parmesan
Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc. · Cheese · barcode 00727242140225
What stands out
- Recall
1 FDA recall names this barcode (2024, ongoing): possible Listeria. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- Recalls1 FDA recall names this barcode (2024, ongoing). Details
- AdditivesNone of the additives we track appear in the ingredients.
- TypicalFDA's tests of cheese show what's typical. See levels
- Others1 other cheese product has lab results. Compare them
FDA recalls
- 2024-02-07 · Class I · Ongoing Listeria monocytogenes contamination.Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc. dba Don Francisco Cheese: Rizo Bros Cotija (Grated) 8 oz. UPC 72724200043 7 oz. UPC 7-27242-14022-5 Tio Francisco, Casa Cardenas 9 oz. UPC 7-27242-00022-2 & 8-11371-27109-4 Rizo Bros Cotija 8 oz. UPC 7-27242-00043-7 Tio Francisco Cotija 14 oz. 7-27242-00517-3 Food City Cotija 16 oz. Tio Francisco Cotija (Grated) 20 oz. UPC 7-27242-00056-7 Tio Francisco, San Carlos Available to consumers at retail deli counters in various sizes Tio Francisco Cotija Enchilado 14 oz. UPC 7-27242-00535-7 Food City, Casa Cardenas Cotija Enchilado 16 oz. Tio Francisco Cotija Enchilado Available to consumers at retail deli counters in various sizes Tio Francisco Cotija Rallado 12 oz. UPC 7-27242-00021-5 Tio Francisco Cotija Rallado Available to consumers at retail deli counters in various sizes Cotija (Bulk and grated bulk) Recall F-0916-2024 details
Typical for cheese
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Arsenic (total): usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Cheese, American, processed: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 2.1, highest 6.3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Cheese, Swiss: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Cheese, cheddar (sharp/mild): found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Cheese, mozzarella: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Cheese, American, processed: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 2.8, highest 3.5 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Cheese, Swiss: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Cheese, cheddar (sharp/mild): found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Cheese, mozzarella: found in 3 of 27 samples, average 0.23, highest 2.9 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Cheese, American, processed: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Cheese, Swiss: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Cheese, cheddar (sharp/mild): found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Cheese, mozzarella: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cheese, American, processed: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 8.2, highest 11 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cheese, Swiss: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cheese, cheddar (sharp/mild): found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cheese, mozzarella: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Cheese, American, processed: found in 20 of 20 samples, average 12, highest 49 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Cheese, Swiss, natural: found in 18 of 20 samples, average 5.14, highest 17 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Cheese, cheddar, natural (sharp/mild): found in 18 of 20 samples, average 7.05, highest 69 ppb (2008-2012)
Left out of the summary above: Perchlorate. FDA measured it in only some of these foods, so the result describes those foods, not the whole kind.
"Typically" is FDA's middle sample. Daily amounts use the long-run average and each chemical's daily limit (EPA reference dose, or FDA's level for lead) for a 33-lb toddler and a 154-lb adult. ppb = micrograms per kilogram of food. Source: FDA Total Diet Study.
Not tested
No published results for this product cover: Metals, Perchlorate, Phthalates (plastic softeners), Phthalate substitutes, Bisphenols. That means nobody has published a test, not that these are absent.
Ingredients (from the label)
PASTEURIZED GRADE A WHOLE MILK, SALT, CULTURES, MICROBIAL ENZYMES & CELLULOSE.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-07-29. Labels change; check the package.