Perdue Recalls 167K Pounds of Chicken Nuggets Over Metal Contamination

Perdue Recalls 167,000 Pounds of Chicken Products

Per­due Foods is recall­ing more than 167,000 pounds of frozen chick­en nuggets and ten­ders after some cus­tomers report­ed find­ing met­al wire embed­ded in the products. 

The recall cov­ers select lots of three prod­ucts: Per­due Bread­ed Chick­en Ten­ders, Butch­er Box Organ­ic Chick­en Breast Nuggets, and Per­due Sim­ply Smart Organ­ics Bread­ed Chick­en Breast Nuggets.

Foreign Object Contamination Leads to Recall

Accord­ing to Per­due and the U.S. Agri­cul­ture Depart­men­t’s Food Safe­ty and Inspec­tion Ser­vice, the recall was ini­ti­at­ed after the com­pa­ny received an unspec­i­fied num­ber of cus­tomer complaints.

Per­due lat­er deter­mined that the mate­r­i­al found in the prod­ucts was “a very thin strand of met­al wire that was inad­ver­tent­ly intro­duced into the man­u­fac­tur­ing process.”

Consumers Urged to Check Freezers and Discard Affected Products

The recalled ten­ders and nuggets can be iden­ti­fied by their prod­uct codes, best if used by date of March 23, 2025, and the estab­lish­ment num­ber “P‑33944” on the back of the package. 

Con­sumers who have the recalled chick­en are urged to throw it away or return the prod­uct to its place of pur­chase. Per­due is offer­ing full refunds to impact­ed consumers.

For­eign object con­t­a­m­i­na­tion, includ­ing inci­dents involv­ing met­al, plas­tic, and oth­er mate­ri­als, is a per­sis­tent issue in the food industry.