Plastic Contamination Prompts Chicken Recall

Plastic Contamination Prompts Chicken Recall

Jun 20, 2013

Just over 18,000 pounds of mechanically separated chicken have been recalled after it was discovered that bits of plastic might have entered the meat. The company, Tip Top Poultry, Inc., blames a broken washer as the source of the contamination. To read more, click HERE.  

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