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Tyson Foods Recalls Nearly 8.5 Million
Pounds of Ready-to-Eat Chicken Products Due to Possible Listeria Contamination
Published: July 04, 2021 at 11:00
a.m.
By: Alert from USDA Food Safety and Inspection
Service (FSIS)
Tyson Foods Inc. Recalls Ready-To-Eat Chicken
Products Due to Possible Listeria Contamination
FSIS Announcement
WASHINGTON, July
3, 2021 – Tyson Foods Inc., a Dexter, Mo. establishment, is recalling
approximately 8,492,832 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) chicken products that
may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and
Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The frozen, fully
cooked chicken products were produced between December 26, 2020 and April 13, 2021. The products that are subject
to recall are listed here.
View the labels here.
The products
subject to recall bear establishment number “EST. P-7089” on the product
bag or inside the USDA mark of inspection. These items were shipped
nationwide to retailers and institutions, including hospitals, nursing
facilities, restaurants, schools and Department of
Defense locations.
On June 9, 2021,
FSIS was notified of two persons ill with listeriosis. Working in
conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and
state public health partners, FSIS determined there is evidence linking
the Listeria monocytogenes illnesses to precooked chicken
produced at Tyson Foods Inc. The epidemiologic investigation identified
three listeriosis illnesses, including one death, between April 6, 2021 and June 5, 2021. During routine sample collection,
FSIS collected two precooked chicken samples from two establishments that
are closely related genetically to Listeria monocytogenes from
ill people. One of the samples was collected at Tyson Foods Inc. FSIS is
continuing to work with federal and state public health partners to determine
if there are additional illnesses linked to these products.
Additional
information on the investigation may be found on the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention website.
Consumption of
food contaminated with L. monocytogenes can cause
listeriosis, a serious infection that primarily affects older adults,
persons with weakened immune systems, and pregnant women and their
newborns. Less commonly, persons outside these risk groups are affected.
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. In addition, serious and sometimes fatal infections in
older adults and persons with weakened immune systems. Listeriosis is
treated with antibiotics. Persons in the higher-risk categories who
experience flu-like symptoms within two months after eating contaminated
food should seek medical care and tell the health care provider about
eating the contaminated food.
FSIS is concerned
that some product may be in consumer and institutional freezers. Consumers
should not eat these products. Institutions should not serve these
products. These products should be thrown away or returned to the place of
purchase.
FSIS routinely
conducts recall effectiveness checks to verify recalling firms notify their customers
of the recall and that steps are taken to make certain that the product is
no longer available to consumers. When available, the retail distribution
list(s) will be posted on the FSIS website at www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls.
Consumers who
have questions can contact Tyson Foods customer
relations, at (855) 382-3101.
Consumers with
food safety questions can call the toll-free USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline
at 1-888-MPHotline (1-888-674-6854) or live chat via Ask USDA from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
(Eastern Time) Monday through Friday. Consumers can also browse food safety
messages at Ask USDA or send
a question via email to MPHotline@usda.gov.
For consumers that need to report a problem with a meat, poultry, or egg
product, the online Electronic Consumer Complaint Monitoring System can be
accessed 24 hours a day at https://foodcomplaint.fsis.usda.gov/eCCF/.
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