Food Safety Recall round-up 23-29 March 2018
Plastic in canned chicken
US: Tony Downs Food Company is recalling 96,384 pounds of chicken that may be contaminated with hard plastic.
12.5-oz. tins in a case of six cans of “Member’s Mark Premium Natural Chunk Chicken Breast in Water” with lot code 17333, case code 9816 and use-by date of 29 November 2020 and 50-oz. tins in a case of six cans of “Member’s Mark Food Service Premium Natural Chunk Chicken Breast in Water” with lot code 17332, case code 9817 and use-by date 28 November 2019.
Thermally processed, commercially sterile canned chunk chicken breast items were produced on 28-29 November 2017 and shipped to retail stores nationwide.
The problem was discovered after the firm received two consumer complaints of extraneous material contamination. There have been no confirmed reports of injury.