Additional products made with the contaminated products include a buffalo chicken wrap, a Caesar salad with chicken breast and a country-style chef salad with ham and chicken breast, all sold in Circle K convenience stores. The contaminated products were marked best by June 27-July 3.
Tyson Foods Inc. is recalling 8,955,296 pounds of ready-to-eat chicken after multiple cases of Listeria monocytogenes were linked to Tyson products. One death from listeriosis was linked to Tyson products, a release from the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service reported.
The chicken was shipped nationwide to retailers and institutions, including hospitals, nursing facilities, restaurants, schools and Department of Defense locations. The contaminated products were sold between Dec. 26, 2020, and April 13.
The FSIS was notified June 9 of two cases of listeriosis. After working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state public health officials, FSIS found evidence linking Listeria monocytogenes to precooked chicken from Tyson. Epidemiologic investigation found an additional three listeriosis cases, including one death, between April 6 and June 5 of this year. Two samples of Listeria monocytogenes were found in establishments and one sample was found at Tyson Foods Inc. FSIS is continuing its investigation to determine whether there have been any more cases tied to Tyson Foods products.
Listeriosis can cause fever, muscle aches, headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance and convulsions sometimes preceded by diarrhea or other gastrointestinal symptoms. An invasive infection spreads beyond the gastrointestinal tract. In pregnant women, the infection can cause miscarriages, stillbirths, premature delivery or life-threatening infection of the newborn. Serious and sometimes fatal infections can occur older adults and persons with weakened immune systems. Listeriosis is treated with antibiotics. Anyone in the higher-risk categories who experience flu-like symptoms within two months after eating contaminated food should seek medical care and tell their health care provider about eating the contaminated food.
Tyson released a list of products that are possibly contaminated. The products bear the establishment number “EST. P-7089” on the packaging. FSIS is concerned that some product may be in consumer and institutional freezers. If you see these products, do not consume or serve them. Instead, throw them away or return them to the place of purchase.
- Tyson pulled chicken breast - fully cooked, boneless skinless with rib meat, seasoned, smoke flavor added - 20 ounce bag
- Tyson fully cooked, boneless, sinless - pulled chicken breasts with rib meat - 12 pound bag
- Jet’s Pizza - fully cooked, fajita seasoned, boneless skinless - diced chicken breasts with rib meat - 10 pound bag
- Tyson fully cooked diced grilled chicken breast with rib meat - 10 pound bag
- Tyson fully cooked, seasoned, grilled - boneless skinless chicken strips CN for fajitas - 39.93 pound bag
- Tyson fully cooked, all natural, low sodium boneless, skinless - pulled white chicken - 10 pound bag
- Tyson fully cooked, low sodium, boneless, skinless - pulled chicken natural proportion - 10 pound bag
- Tyson fully cooked, low sodium, all natural - half-inch died chicken natural proportion - 10 pound bag
- Tyson fully cooked, low sodium - half inch diced white chicken - 10 pound bag
- Tyson fully cooked oven roasted diced chicken breast - boneless skinless with rib meat, seasoned - 22 ounce bag
- Tyson fully cooked, grilled, boneless, skinless - chicken breast strips with rib meat, for fajitas - 10 pound bag
- Tyson fully cooked grilled boneless skinless chicken breast strips with rib meat - 8 pound bag
- Casey’s General Store - fully cooked, grilled chicken breast strips with rib meat - 10 pound bag
- Tyson fully cooked, wood fired seasoned, diced, grilled, boneless skinless chicken breasts with rib meat, smoke flavor added - 10 pound bag
- Tyson fully cooked fajita chicken breast strips - boneless skinless with rib meat smoke flavor and caramel color added - 10 pound bag
- Tyson fully cooked chicken breast strips - boneless, skinless with rib meat, seasoned smoke flavor - 22 ounce bag
- Fully cooked grilled chicken breast strips - boneless skinless with rib meat - 7.5 pound bag
- Tyson fully cooked oven roasted diced chicken breast - boneless skinless with rib meat, seasoned - 12 ounce bag
- Marco’s Pizza fully cooked, sliced chicken breast strips with rib meat, smoke flavor added - 10 pound bag
- Tyson fully coked, wood fire seasoned, grilled chicken breast strips with rib meat, smoke flavor added - 10 pound bag
- Tyson fully cooked, boneless skinless pulled chicken breast with rib meat - 12 pound bag
- Litter Caesars fully cooked chicken wing selections - 10 pound bag
- Tyson fully cooked char-broiled boneless chicken meat for fajitas - 10 pound bag
- Tyson fully cooked, boneless, skinless dark chicken fajita strips smoke flavor added - 30 pound bag
- Tyson fully cooked, roasted, grill marked, all natural boneless, skinless chicken leg strips - 30 pound bag
- Tyson fully cooked, low sodium, boneless, skinless pulled dark and white chicken - 10 pound bag
- Tyson fully cooked boneless, skinless pulled chicken breast with rib meat - 12 pound bag
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