Besides the risks associated with consuming raw milk, there are concerns over the safety of cheeses made from raw milk. Among soft cheeses only Maasora yielded 9.5% (2/21) of EHEC O157 isolates recovered in this study, this result could be linked to the process of preparing Maasora, since the milk used in this type of cheese is raw without heat treatment. However, the presence of EHEC O157 in locally made fresh soft cheese samples was 6% in a study conducted in Nigeria . There have been food poisoning outbreaks linked to raw milk cheeses, some of these outbreaks were due to pathogenic E. coli . On the other hand, none of the Ricotta samples were positive in this study.