AdvancePierre Foods product recalled over Salmonella risk

Recall date

July 12, 2015

Source

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA FSIS)

Official notice title

Barber Foods Recalls Stuffed Chicken Products Due To Possible Salmonella Enteritidis Contamination

Recall number

096-2015

FDA classification

Class I

Brand / firm

AdvancePierre Foods, Inc.

Why it was recalled

Product Contamination

Class I is the FDA’s most serious recall level: there is a reasonable probability that using this product will cause serious harm or death.

What was recalled

EDITORS NOTE: This release is being reissued to expand the July 2, 2015 recall to include additional products. Details of this release were also updated to reflect a change in poundage, epidemiological information and distribution area. WASHINGTON, July 12, 2015 Barber Foods, a Portland, Maine establishment, is recalling approximately 1,707,494 pounds of frozen, raw stuffed chicken products that may be contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis, the U.S. Department of Agricultures Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The chicken products were produced between February 17, 2015 and May 20, 2015. Since the original recall on July 2, 2015, two more case-patients have been identified. The scope of this recall expansion now includes all products associated with contaminated source material. On July 2, 2015, Barber Foods recalled approximately 58,320 pounds of frozen, raw, stuffed chicken items produced on January 29, 2015; February 20, 2015; and April 23, 2015. The following product is subject to recall: 2-lb. 4-oz. cardboard box containing 6 individually pouched pieces of BARBER FOODS PREMIUM ENTREES BREADED-BONELESS RAW STUFFED CHICKEN BREASTS WITH RIB MEAT KIEV with use by/sell by date of April 28, 2016, May 20, 2016 and July 21, 2016 and Lot Code number 0950292102, 0950512101, or 0951132202. The products subject to recall bear the establishment number P-276 inside the USDA mark of inspection. These products were shipped to retail locations nationwide. FSIS was notified of a cluster of Salmonella Enteritidis illnesses on June 24, 2015. Working in conjunction with Minnesota State Departments of Health and Agriculture, Wisconsin Department of Health Services, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, FSIS determined that there is a link between the frozen, raw, stuffed chicken products from Barber Foods and this illness cluster. Based on epidemiological evidence and traceback investigations, six case-patients have been identified in Minnes…