NEW YORK — Check your freezer. Perdue Foods is recalling more than 167,000 pounds of frozen chicken nuggets and tenders after some customers reported finding metal wire embedded in the products.
According to Perdue and the US Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, the recall involves select lots of three products: Perdue Breaded Chicken Tenders, Butcher Box Organic Chicken Breast Nuggets and Perdue Simply Smart Organics Breaded Chicken Breast Nuggets.
FSIS and Perdue determined that approximately 167,171 pounds (75,827 kg) of these products may be contaminated with foreign material after receiving an unspecified number of customer complaints. In a statement Friday, Maryland-based Perdue said the material was “identified in a limited number of consumer packages.”
The company “later determined that the material was a very thin strand of metal wire that was inadvertently introduced into the manufacturing process,” Jeff Shaw, Perdue’s senior vice president of food safety and quality, said in a prepared statement. Shaw added that Perdue decided to recall all affected packages “out of an abundance of caution.”
As of Friday, there were no confirmed injuries or adverse reactions linked to eating these products, according to FSIS and Perdue. Still, FSIS is concerned that the products may be in consumers’ freezers.
The now recalled tenders and nuggets can be identified by product codes listed on both Perdue and FSIS online notices. All three affected products have a best buy date of March 23, 2025 and establishment number “P-33944” on the back of the packaging. They were sold at retailers across the country.
Consumers who have the recalled chicken are asked to throw it away or return the product to the place of purchase. Perdue is offering a full refund to affected consumers who can call the company at 866-866-3703.
Contamination by foreign objects is one of the main reasons for food recalls in the US today. Just last November, Tyson Foods recalled nearly 30,000 pounds (13,600 kg) of chicken nuggets after consumers also found pieces of metal in the dinosaur-shaped products. beyond metal, plastic fragments, stonespieces of insects and more “foreign” materials have prompted recalls by getting into packaged goods.
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