Briefing: Foster Farms Recalls Chicken Linked to Salmonella

Posted by Unknown on Friday, July 4, 2014

HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 23:44:44 GMT Server: Apache Set-Cookie: NYT-S=deleted; expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:01 GMT; path=/; domain=www.stg.nytimes.com Set-Cookie: NYT-S=0Mf1VoWNOOfjjDXrmvxADeHz.4KPelYrZHdeFz9JchiAIUFL2BEX5FWcV.Ynx4rkFI; expires=Sun, 03-Aug-2014 23:44:44 GMT; path=/; domain=.nytimes.com Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/05/business/brief-foster-farms-recalls-chicken-linked-to-salmonella.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 Content-Length: 0 nnCoection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Apache Cache-Control: no-cache Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 48710 Accept-Ranges: bytes Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 23:44:44 GMT X-Varnish: 1104654705 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish X-Cache: MISS X-API-Version: 5-5 X-PageType: article Connection: close

NYTimes.com no longer supports Internet Explorer 8 or earlier. Please upgrade your browser. LEARN MORE Â»

Business Day |Briefing: Foster Farms Recalls Chicken Linked to Salmonella

http://nyti.ms/1xtF3gC

Foster Farms, a California chicken producer, has issued a recall for 170 different chicken products after being linked to an outbreak of an antibiotic-resistant strain of salmonella. The Agriculture Department said it had found evidence directly linking Foster Farms boneless-skinless chicken breast to a case of Salmonella Heidelberg. The strain has sickened more than 500 people in the last 16 months. The government said its investigators first learned of the case on June 23, and the recall was issued as soon as the direct link was confirmed. Foster Farms says the products have â€œuse or freeze byâ€ dates from March 21 to March 29 and have been distributed to California, Hawaii, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Oregon and Alaska. The long list of products in the recall include drumsticks, thighs, chicken tenders and livers. Most are sold with the Foster Farms label but some have the labels FoodMaxx, Kroger, Safeway, Savemart, Valbest and Sunland. The company was linked to previous salmonella illnesses in 2004 and in 2012. Foster Farms said in May that it had put new safety measures in place, including better sanitation in its plants.