Tyson Foods of Rogers, Arkansas, is recalling about 69,093 pounds of frozen, ready-to-eat chicken strips that may be contaminated with foreign materials, more specifically pieces of plastic. Those plastic pieces can pose a choking hazard. Two consumer complaints prompted this recall. There are no confirmed reports of adverse reactions due to this issue. The recalled … Read more
A Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak in 2013 at a Tennessee correctional facility that was linked to mechanically separated Tyson chicken sickened nine people. Twenty-two percent of those sickened were hospitalized; no deaths were reported. All of the ill persons were incarcerated at a single correctional facility in the state. Traceback and other investigations found that mechanically separated … Read more
A Salmonella outbreak linked to Tyson mechanically separated chicken sickened nine inmates at the Bradley County Jail in TN and did not include cases in other states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has determined. Health officials looked at 23 cases of Salmonella Heidelberg infections in 15 other states that took place during … Read more
Salmonella in Tyson mechanically separated chicken that sickened nine inmates at the Bradley County Jail in TN last November is antibiotic resistant, according to the latest update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Tyson recalled 34,000 pounds of the product, which was not sold retail, earlier this month. Institutions that purchased this product … Read more
The Bradley County Jail in TN, where nine inmates contracted Salmonella poisoning from a Tyson chicken product, received the product directly from Tyson and used it to prepare meals, Shelley Walker, a spokesperson for the Tennessee Department of Health told Food Poisoning Bulletin today. No other company was involved in the transaction between Tyson and … Read more
The Bradley County Jail is the Tennessee correctional facility where nine inmates were sickened with Salmonella poisoning after eating Tyson chicken, a county official told Food Poisoning Bulletin this morning. The outbreak may include cases in 12 other states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday. The agency is awaiting test results … Read more
The Tyson Salmonella outbreak that has sickened nine inmates at a TN correctional facility may include cases in 12 other states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Two of the nine inmates sickened with Salmonella Heidelberg infections were hospitalized. These illnesses are not related to the ongoing Foster Farms outbreak which … Read more
The USDA has announced that Tyson mechanically separated chicken products have been linked to a Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak. The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) was notified of a cluster of Salmonella Heidelberg illnesses in Tennessee on December 12, 2013. There is a link between the mechanically separated chicken products from Tyson Foods and … Read more
Tyson Foods has agreed to pay $4.25 million to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to settle a lawsuit stemming from incidents where leaky refrigeration systems at two dozens Tyson plants in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Nebraska released anhydrous ammonia into the air injuring workers and killing one person. Tyson must pay $3.95 million penalty and purchase $300,000 … Read more
Tyson Foods Inc. is blasting a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about an accident involving a chlorine gas leak at the company’s plant in Springdale Ark., in June 2011. The incident occurred when a worker at the poultry processing plant began to pour sodium hypochlorite into a 55-gallon drum that … Read more