Check Your Fridge and Shopping Cart: Here Comes a Massive Food Recall

By Jennifer Porter Gore | Word In BlackOverview: The tainted products, served in foods like premade salads, packaged chicken strips and frozen taquitos, landed on grocery store shelves and in dining halls nationwide.(WIB) – In yet another alarming development in our food system, a food processor that supplies major grocery retailers like Target as well as school lunchrooms and convenience stores has issued a nationwide recall of roughly 12 million pounds of possibly contaminated, ready-to-eat meat and poultry products. BrucePac, an Oregon-based company, issued the sweeping recall late last week after the U.S. Department of Agriculture discovered listeria, a potentially deadly bacteria, during a routine inspection of the company’s processing plant in Durant, Oklahoma. Initially, the recall only affected 9.9 million pounds of BrucePac foods, including ready-to-eat meat and poultry items produced between June 19, 2024, and October 8, 2024. Although the USDA initiated the recall last week, on Wednesday it expanded the action to include almost 12 million pounds of meat products.The recall comes just a few weeks after Boar’s Head, Inc., one of the country’s largest suppliers of deli meats and cheeses, recalled some of its meats and some cheeses because of listeria contamination. In a statement, the...