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Many national grocery stores and hundreds of schools across the country have received recalled BrucePac ready-to-eat chicken and chicken, according to federal regulators.
BrucePac expanded its recall earlier this month to include about 12 million pounds of meat and ready-to-eat poultry that may be contaminated with listeria.
The actual recall began on Oct. 9 after the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), an agency of the Department of Agriculture, reported that the products tested positive for listeria monocytogenes during a routine inspection.
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The center then releases a list of retail locations, as well as an initial list of schools that have received the products.
The first six-page list of schools includes institutions in more than a dozen states.
“The products going to these schools were not part of the USDA’s National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs; the schools purchase food directly from other vendors,” the agency said in its latest update.
Meanwhile, its list of affected stores nationwide is more than 1,000 pages long. The largest national chains on the retail list include Walmart, Sam’s Club, Target, Sprouts Farmers Market, Trader Joe’s and Albertsons. It also includes companies under the Albertsons banner, such as Safeway.
| A ticker | Security | Finally | Change | Change % |
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| WMT | Company WALMART INC. | 81.03 | -0.29 |
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| TGT | Company TARGET CORP. | 156.84 | +0.95 |
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| ACI | ALBERTSONS COMPANIES | 19.00 | -0.01 |
-0.05% |
Shoppers walk outside an Albertsons grocery store on Feb. 26, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images / Getty Images)
FSIS said it will continue to update its list of school and retail products as it receives more information.
FSIS is simultaneously reviewing now 372 page document of all product labels affected by the recall. This includes hundreds of different things that can be contaminated.
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Walmart told FOX Business it has limited sales of the products and removed them from affected stores and clubs. It is also working with the supplier to investigate the matter.
FOX Business has reached out to BrucePac, Sam’s Club, Target, Sprouts, Trader Joe’s, and Albertsons for comment.
Other food manufacturers such as Dakota Tom’s Sandwiches and Reser’s Fine Foods have recalled certain meat products supplied by BrucePac.
The FSIS investigation identified BrucePac RTE chicken as the source of the bacteria, which can cause serious and sometimes fatal illnesses in young children, the frail or elderly and people with weakened immune systems.
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According to the FDA, healthy people it may have only temporary symptoms such as high fever, headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea.
In pregnant women, listeria infection can cause miscarriage and stillbirth, the FDA said.