Chicken Patties Recalled by Foster Poultry Farms for Suspected Foreign Matter Contamination

A Class II Recall (“Low Health Risk”) has been issued for “FOSTER FARMS Chicken Patties BREADED CHICKEN BREAST PATTIES WITH RIB MEAT.” According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), Foster Poultry Farms initiated this recall of 131,880 pounds of its frozen, ready-to eat chicken patty products because they may contain fragments of clear, soft plastic.

Three separate consumers who bought the contaminated products alerted the company to the extraneous plastic materials they had discovered on March 22, April 3, and April 15, 2017. Foster Poultry Farms subsequently ascertained that the plastic pieces had come from their packaging materials.

The affected breaded chicken patty products, produced on February 15, 2017, were distributed in the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Utah, and Washington. The 5-pound, 20-count packages, labelled as “FOSTER FARMS Chicken Patties BREADED CHICKEN BREAST PATTIES WITH RIB MEAT,” are marked with a “Best By” date of 02/15/18 and bear the establishment number “P-33901” inside the USDA mark of inspection.

Consumers who purchased this product are advised to dispose of it properly. They can also return it to the store where they bought it.