If you’ve been planning to dig into a supermarket chicken salad or other packaged dish for lunch or dinner, you may want to listen up: Nearly 10 million pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) meat products have been recalled due to potential contamination with bacteria—but not before the items made their way to a bunch of major retailers, including 7-Eleven, Wegmans, Kroger, Amazon Kitchen, and Trader Joe’s.
On October 9, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced that BrucePac, a company based in Durant, Oklahoma, was recalling approximately 9,986,245 pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry items. Per the announcement, the recall was initiated when routine product testing by the FSIS turned up Listeria monocytogenes bacteria in products made with BrucePac’s RTE chicken.
The affected products bear the establishment number “51205” or “P-51205,” and were manufactured from June 19 to October 8, according to FSIS. Shipped nationwide, they reached prominent distributors, and some may still be available for use or sale—maybe even at your nearest grocery store.
Following the initial announcement, the FDA released a 326-page list of all the affected products spanning wraps, enchiladas, salad bowls, salad kits, and pasta dishes. Some of the recalled items include:
- 7-Eleven’s Chicken Caesar Salad
- Amazon Kitchen’s Chicken & Pepper Jack Wrap
- Taylor Farms’ Cobb Salad With Chicken & Bacon
- Giant Eagle’s Southwest Style Salad Bowl With Chicken
- H-E-B’s Southwest Pasta Salad With Chicken
- Meijer’s Ranch Salad with Chicken and Bacon
- Save Mart’s Chicken and Rice With Teriyaki Sauce
- Trader Joe’s Harvest Salad With Grilled Chicken
- Trader Joe’s Curried White Chicken Deli Salad
- Wegmans’s Chef Salad Bowl
- Michelina’s Chicken Lo Mein
- Good & Gather’s Cilantro Avocado Salad
- Kroger’s BLT Salad With Chicken Salad Kit For One
- Amazon Fresh’s Fiesta Salad With Chicken
- Fusia (Aldi’s) Garlic Chicken Bowl
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