Pilgrim’s Pride Expands Recall of Cooked Chicken Products

WACO (AP) — Pilgrim’s Pride is expanding a 5 million pound recall of cooked chicken products. Federal food safety regulators say the latest expansion by the largest poultry producer in the U.S. includes a variety of chicken products potentially contaminated with foreign materials. Food inspectors have found items such as wood, plastic, rubber and metal. Federal regulators say the problem was first discovered after the company, which started in 1946 in Pittsburg, Texas, received several consumer complaints regarding plastic contamination of chicken nuggets.