Tyson Chicken Recalls More Than 130,000 Pounds of Chicken Nuggets

 

Tyson Food is voluntarily recalling more than 130,000 pounds of cooked chicken nuggets because they may contain hard plastic, the US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety Inspection Service reported on Tuesday.

The recall was issued after a customer reported finding "foreign material" in a chicken nugget product.

"According to Tyson Foods, the plastic material ranged in size from 21 mm in length and 6.5 mm in diameter and may have come from a round, hard plastic rod used to connect a plastic transfer belt. The firm said the products pass through a metal detector, but the plastic is not detectable to this technology," the USDA recall announcement said.

The recall, which applies to 5-pound bags of fully cooked panko chicken nuggets with a "use by" date of July 18, 2017. They also have case code 2006SDL03 and 2006SDL33 on the package.

Twenty-pound bulk packages of Spare Time nugget-shaped chicken breast pattie fritters with rib meat are also being recalled. These bulk packages, which were shipped to Pennsylvania for "institutional use," are marked with a production date of July 18, 2016, and case code 2006SDL03.

The recalled products should not be consumed, the USDA advised. Instead, they should be thrown away or returned.

This is a class one recall, which means there is "reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death." However, no adverse events have been reported so far, said the USDA.

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