Supermarket Chain Recalls Creamy Spreadable Cheese and Cheese Platter Due to Listeria

On 2 September 2026, the NVWA published a safety warning for two products from a supermarket chain: a creamy spreadable cheese (barcode 8718452662012), and a mixed cheese platter (barcode 8718452871698), both due to possible Listeria presence. The warning applied to all expiration dates of both products. The supermarket chain permitted returns at any of its stores with full refund, with no need to present proof of purchase.

Creamy spreadable cheese is a particularly widespread cheese format in the Dutch market: a creamy paste with texture similar to fresh cheese or thick cream cheese, designed for spreading or eating directly with a spoon, which because of its high moisture and lack of thermal treatment after packaging shares the same risk profile for Listeria monocytogenes as other fresh and soft-paste cheeses. That the recall extended simultaneously to a mixed cheese platter—which can include multiple varieties and therefore multiple raw material sources—suggests that the finding may have originated in an ingredient or component shared between both products, rather than in a single piece of cheese.

For TAAG, this recall adds to a series of Listeria alerts in cheeses that Dutch chains managed within a span of a few weeks in September 2026, confirming that the segment of fresh and creamy mass-consumption cheeses under supermarket private label demands the same level of environmental monitoring already applied to higher-prestige artisanal cheeses: a supermarket's private label does not reduce the microbiological risk inherent to the product matrix.