Foreign-matter contamination prompts Pilgrim’s Pride recall

WACO, Texas (AP) — Pilgrim’s Pride ordered a massive recall of cooked chicken products Tuesday after consumers and federal meat inspectors found contamination by such foreign material as wood, plastic, rubber and metal.
The recall of almost 4.6 million pounds of fully cooked chicken products announced Tuesday is an expansion of an earlier recall, according to a statement issued Tuesday by the U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That one, ann