FBI Probing Glass in Cottage Cheese
The FBI is investigating how glass fragments wound up inside cartons of Knudsen cottage cheese manufactured here and sold in the Los Angeles area.
Cartons of cottage cheese were pulled from grocers’ shelves last week. The product was distributed throughout California and Nevada under the Knudsen, Foremost, Alpha Beta, Westwood, Jerseymaid and Albertson brand names.
Knudsen spokeswoman Mary Agnes Welsh said the company has received fewer than 10 glass-contaminated cottage cheese containers, and all were sold in the Los Angeles area.
Welsh and George Vinson, supervisor of the Fresno FBI office, said no one has been injured so far because of glass-tainted cottage cheese. She declined to specify the number of cartons pulled from store shelves, adding, “That’s proprietary information.”
Vinson said the FBI is approaching the case as it would any suspected consumer-tampering incident, but wouldn’t say if the FBI considers tampering or a production accident as the cause.
Vinson said Knudsen officials have been very cooperative with the investigation.
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