Perdue recalls 167,000 pounds of chicken nuggets after consumers find metal wire in some packages

Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Check your freezer. Perdue Foods is recalling much than 167,000 pounds of stiff chickenhearted nuggets and tenders aft immoderate customers reported uncovering metallic ligament embedded successful nan products.

According to Perdue and nan U.S. Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, nan callback covers prime tons of 3 products: Perdue Breaded Chicken Tenders, Butcher Box Organic Chicken Breast Nuggets and Perdue Simply Smart Organics Breaded Chicken Breast Nuggets.

FSIS and Perdue wished that immoderate 167,171 pounds (75,827 kilograms) of these products whitethorn beryllium contaminated pinch a overseas worldly aft receiving an unspecified number of customer complaints. In a Friday announcement, Maryland-based Perdue said that nan worldly was “identified successful a constricted number of user packages.”

The institution later “determined nan worldly to beryllium a very bladed strand of metallic ligament that was inadvertently introduced into nan manufacturing process,” Jeff Shaw, Perdue’s elder vice president of nutrient information and quality, said successful a prepared statement. Shaw added that Perdue decided to callback each impacted packages “out of an abundance of caution.”

There are nary confirmed injuries aliases adverse reactions tied to eating these products to date, according to FSIS and Perdue. Still, FSIS is concerned that nan products whitethorn beryllium successful consumers’ freezers.

The now-recalled tenders and nuggets tin beryllium identified by merchandise codes listed connected some Perdue and FSIS’s online notices. All 3 impacted products person a champion if utilized by day of March 23, 2025, and constitution number “P-33944” connected nan backmost of nan package. They were sold astatine retailers nationwide.

Consumers who person nan recalled chickenhearted are urged to propulsion it distant aliases return nan merchandise to its spot of purchase. Perdue is offering afloat refunds to impacted consumers who tin telephone nan institution astatine 866-866-3703.

Foreign entity contamination is 1 of nan the apical reasons for nutrient recalls successful nan U.S. today. Just past November, Tyson Foods recalled astir 30,000 pounds (13,600 kilograms) of chickenhearted nuggets aft consumers besides recovered metallic pieces successful nan dinosaur-shaped products. Beyond metal, integrative fragments, rocks, bits of insects and much “extraneous” materials person prompted recalls by making their measurement into packaged goods.