Technologies

Thousands of Cases of Shredded Cheese Recalled Due to Possible Metal Fragments

The cheeses were recalled from Aldi, Target, Walmart and more by Great Lakes Cheese.

The US Food and Drug Administration has announced an extensive recall of shredded cheese due to the possibility that it contains metal fragments. According to the report, the cheeses were distributed in 31 states and Puerto Rico, with many of them being sold at popular retailers such as Aldi, Target, Walmart and others.

Don’t miss any of our unbiased tech content and lab-based reviews. Add CNET as a preferred Google source.

The reason listed for the recall is «potential metal fragments from supplier raw material,» and Great Lakes Cheese from Hiram, Ohio, is the company behind the recall. The bulk of the recalled cheeses — which includes 235,789 cases — are low-moisture, part-skim mozzarella shredded cheese packaged in individually plastic bags. Those recalled cheeses are:

Always Save — Shredded, 5 lb., UPC 7003865782, 4/case
Borden — Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 5300007162 6 or 12/case
Borden — Thick Cut, 8 oz., UPC 5300007170, 6/case 3
Brookshire’s — Finely Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 9282510119, 12/case
Brookshire’s — Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 9282510120, 12/case
Brookshire’s — Shredded, 32 oz., UPC 9282510130, 6/case
Brookshire’s — Thick Cut, 8 oz., UPC 9282592197, 12/case 4
Cache Valley Creamery — Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 7495802553, 6 or 12/case
Chestnut Hill — Fancy Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 3225116742, 6/case
Coburn Farms — Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 5193331657, 12/case
Coburn Farms — Shredded, 12 oz., UPC 5193321820, 18/case
Coburn Farms — Shredded, 32 oz., UPC 5193334257, 6/case
Econo — Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 893800294, 12/case
Food Club — Finely Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 3680045573, 12/case
Food Club — Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 3680005117, 12/case
Food Club — Shredded, 16 oz., UPC 3680005144, 12/case
Food Club — Shredded, 32 oz., tube-style bag, UPC 3680012914, 6/case, case UPC 3680041215
Food Club — Shredded, 32 oz., square-style bag, UPC 3680038305, 6/case
Food Lion — Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 3582609008, 12/case
Gold Rush Creamery — Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 1401401014, 12/case
Gold Rush Creamery — Shredded, 32 oz., UPC 1401401030, 6/case
Good & Gather — Fine Cut, 8 oz., UPC 8523903860, 12/case
Good & Gather — Classic, 8 oz., UPC 8523903849, 12/case
Good & Gather — Classic, 32 oz., UPC 8523903852, 6/case
Great Lakes Cheese — Shredded, 5 lb., UPC 3651415034, 4/case
Great Value — Finely Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 7874237425, 6/case
Great Value — Finely Shredded, 16 oz., UPC 7874204492, 5/case
Great Value — Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 7874235317, 6/case
Great Value — Shredded, 16 oz., UPC 7874235321, 5/case
Great Value — Shredded, 32 oz., UPC 7874237475, 6/case
Great Value — Shredded, 5 lb., UPC 7874204980, 4/case
Happy Farms by Aldi — Shredded, 16 oz., UPC 4061463330864, 12/case
Happy Farms by Aldi — Shredded, 32 oz., UPC 4061463369413, 8/case
H-E-B — Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 4122022272, 12/case
H-E-B — Thick, 8 oz., UPC 4122061295, 12/case
H-E-B — Shredded/Fancy Finamente Rallado, 8 oz., UPC 4122006759, 12/case (distributed for sale in Mexico only)
Hill Country Fare — Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 4122018977
Hill Country Fare — Shredded, 16 oz., UPC 4122016234
Hill Country Fare — Shredded, 32 oz., UPC 4122042334
Hill Country Fare — Shredded, 5 lb., UPC 4122082998
Hill Country Fare — Shredded/Rallado, 8 oz., UPC 4122024512 (distributed for sale in Mexico only)
Know & Love — Fine Cut, 8 oz., UPC 788030650
Know & Love — Fine Cut, 16 oz., UPC 788030657
Know & Love — Classic Cut, 8 oz., UPC 788030659
Know & Love — Classic Cut, 32 oz., UPC 788030658
Know & Love — Thick Cut, 8 oz., UPC 788030678
Laura Lynn — Finely Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 8685401031
Laura Lynn — Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 8685400824
Laura Lynn — Shredded, 12 oz., UPC 8685400815
Laura Lynn — Shredded, 16 oz., UPC 8685406528
Laura Lynn — Thick Cut Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 8685407109
Lucerne Dairy Farms — Finely Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 2113004867
Lucerne Dairy Farms — Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 2113004259
Lucerne Dairy Farms — Shredded Family Size, 32 oz., UPC 2113004741
Lucerne Dairy Farms — Rustic Cut, 8 oz., UPC 2113004944, 12/case
Lucerne Dairy Farms — Rustic Cut Family Size, 32 oz., UPC 2113004949
Nu Farm — Fancy Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 3104100151
Publix — Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 4141511665
Publix — Shredded, 16 oz., UPC 4141523365
Schnuck’s — Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 4131858010
Simply Go — Classic Cut Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 1015983021
Simply Go — Classic Cut Shredded, 32 oz., UPC 1015983020
Simply Go — Rustic Cut Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 1015983040
Sprouts Farmers Market — Finely Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 4667052284
Sprouts Farmers Market — Shredded Value Pack, 32 oz., UPC 4667052279
Stater Bros. Markets — Finely Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 7417546413
Stater Bros. Markets — Shredded, 8 oz., UPC 7417546402
Stater Bros. Markets — Shredded, 32 oz., UPC 7417546435
Sunnyside Farms — Shredded, 16 oz., UPC 1754450204
Sunnyside Farms — Shredded, 32 oz., UPC 1754450057

Other recalled cheeses, which include Italian-style shredded cheese blends, pizza-style shredded cheese, mozzarella and provolone blends and a mozzarella and parmesan blend, can be found in the FDA announcement.

Where was the cheese sold?

The states where the recalled cheeses were distributed include Alabama, Arkansa, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Puerto Rico.

What to do if you have cheese that has been recalled?

You can return recalled cheeses to the retailer you bought them from to receive a refund. CNET has reached out to Great Lakes Cheese for comment but has not heard back.

Technologies

Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Wednesday, Dec. 24

Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for Dec. 24.

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.

Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? I’m Irish-American, but yet 6-Down, which involves Ireland, stumped me at first. Read on for all the answers.. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.

If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.

Read more: Tips and Tricks for Solving The New York Times Mini Crossword

Let’s get to those Mini Crossword clues and answers.

Mini across clues and answers

1A clue: Wordle or Boggle
Answer: GAME

5A clue: Big Newton
Answer: ISAAC

7A clue: Specialized vocabulary
Answer: LINGO

8A clue: «See you in a bit!»
Answer: LATER

9A clue: Tone of many internet comments
Answer: SNARK

Mini down clues and answers

1D clue: Sharks use them to breathe
Answer: GILLS

2D clue: From Singapore or South Korea, say
Answer: ASIAN

3D clue: Large ocean ray
Answer: MANTA

4D clue: ___ beaver
Answer: EAGER

6D clue: Second-largest city in the Republic of Ireland, after Dublin
Answer: CORK

Don’t miss any of our unbiased tech content and lab-based reviews. Add CNET as a preferred Google source.

Technologies

Quadrantids Is a Short but Sweet Meteor Shower Just After New Year’s. How to See It

This meteor shower has one of the most active peaks, but it doesn’t last for very long.

The Quadrantids has the potential to be one of the most active meteor showers of the year, and skygazers won’t have long to wait to see it. The annual shower is predicted to reach maximum intensity on Jan. 3. And with a display that can rival Perseids, Quadrantids could be worth braving the cold to see it.

Don’t miss any of our unbiased tech content and lab-based reviews. Add CNET as a preferred Google source.

The show officially begins on Dec. 28 and lasts until Jan. 12, according to the American Meteor Society. Quadrantids is scheduled to peak on Jan. 2-3, when it may produce upwards of 125 meteors per hour. This matches Perseids and other larger meteor showers on a per-hour rate, but Quadrantids also has one of the shortest peaks at just 6 hours, so it rarely produces as many meteors overall as the other big ones.

The meteor shower comes to Earth courtesy of the 2003 EH1 asteroid, which is notable because most meteor showers are fed from comets, not asteroids. Per NASA, 2003 EH1 is a near-Earth asteroid that orbits the sun once every five and a half years. Science posits that 2003 EH1 was a comet in a past life, but too many trips around the sun stripped it of its ice, leaving only its rocky core. The Earth runs through EH1’s orbital debris every January, which results in the Quadrantids meteor shower.

How and where to see Quadrantids

Quadrantids is named for the constellation where its meteors appear to originate, a point known as the radiant. This presents another oddity, as the shower originates from the constellation Quadrans Muralis. This constellation ceased to be recognized as an official constellation in the 1920s and isn’t available on most publicly accessible sky maps.

For the modern skygazer, you’ll instead need to find the Bootes and Draco constellations, both of which contain stars that were once a part of the Quadrans Muralis. Draco will be easier to find after sunset on the evening of Jan. 2, and will be just above the horizon in the northern sky. Bootes orbits around Draco, but will remain under the horizon until just after 1 a.m. local time in the northeastern sky. From that point forward, both will sit in the northeastern part of the sky until sunrise. You’ll want to point your chair in that direction and stay there to see meteors.

As the American Meteor Society notes, Quadrantids has a short but active peak, lasting around 6 hours. The peak is expected to start around 4 p.m. ET and last well into the evening. NASA predicts the meteor shower to start one day later on Jan. 3-4, so if you don’t see any on the evening of Jan. 2, try again on Jan. 3.

To get the best results, the standard space viewing tips apply. You’ll want to get as far away from the city and suburbs as possible to reduce light pollution. Since it’ll be so cold outside, dress warmly and abstain from alcoholic beverages, as they can affect your body temperature. You won’t need any binoculars or telescopes, and the reduced field of view may actually impact your ability to see meteors.

The bad news is that either way, the Quadrantids meteor shower coincides almost perfectly with January’s Wolf Moon, which also happens to be a supermoon. This will introduce quite a lot of light pollution, which will likely drown out all but the brightest meteors. So, while it may have a peak of over 100 meteors per hour, both NASA and the AMS agree that the more realistic expectation is 10 or so bright meteors per hour.

Technologies

Today’s Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Dec. 24, #1649

Here are hints and the answer for today’s Wordle for Dec. 24, No. 1,649.

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today’s Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.

Today’s Wordle puzzle is a little tricky, with a double letter that could confuse players. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on.