A nationwide recall of meat and poultry products potentially contaminated with listeria expanded this past week to nearly 12 million pounds and now includes ready-to-eat meals sent to U.S. schools, restaurants and major retailers, federal officials said.
The updated recall includes prepared salads, burritos and other foods sold at stores including Costco, Trader Joe’s, Target, Walmart and Kroger. The meat used in those products was processed at a Durant, Oklahoma, manufacturing plant operated by BrucePac, which sells precooked meat and poultry to industrial, foodservice and retail companies.
Routine testing found listeria bacteria in samples of BrucePac chicken, officials with the U.S. Agriculture Department said.
US ECONOMY: Retail sales rose 0.4% from August to September, the Commerce Department said Thursday, up from 0.1% the previous month and the third straight increase. Also on Thursday, the Labor Department reported that applications for jobless claims fell 19,000 to 241,000 for the week of Oct. 12, below the 262,000 analysts were expecting.
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