Posted on 12/23/2020 6:56:39 AM PST by mac_truck
The parent company of Lean Cuisine is recalling approximately 92,206 pounds of its baked chicken meal products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Saturday.
Nestlé Prepared Foods, a Springville, Utah establishment, said the meals might be contaminated with pieces of white hard plastic.
The meals — 8⅝-oz. (244g) carton trays of “Lean Cuisine Baked Chicken, white meat chicken with stuffing, red skin mashed potatoes and gravy” with a lot code of 0246595911 and “Best Before” date of October 2021 — were produced and packaged on Sept. 2.
They have an establishment number “EST. P-9018” on the side of the case near the lot number and were shipped to retailers and distributors nationwide.
The problem was discovered Friday by the firm after receiving five consumer complaints involving hard white plastic found in the product. The company says it believes the mashed potatoes used in the production had pieces of a plastic conveyor belt that broke during production.
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92,000 pounds? Do you realize how many millions of packages that is??? ;-)
Half baked?
What’s the big deal, I sprinkle some plastic conveyor belt powder over all my meals, it’s a flavor enhancer.
The tastiest part of the product.
Nuts and bolts in it.
The title is what’s stumped me, I had no idea Lean Cuisine turned chickens into meal before they cooked it and packaged it as entrees.
Sounds like a lot but it’s about one truck full.
Of course. Corn meal for corn muffins, chicken meal for chicken mcmuffins.
Lean Cuisine Chicken Dinner — now with extra nuts.
“ 92,000 pounds? Do you realize how many millions of packages that is??? ;-)”
If they are using 2 oz. of chicken per meal, then it’s 736 thousand packages.
“Now, fortified with Nylon!”
Rassist plastic...
Just for fun.
8⅝-oz. (244g) carton
92,206lbs=41,823,940gm÷244gm=171,409.5901639344 cartons.
8⅝-oz = 8.61oz
92,206lbs=1,475,296oz÷8.61=171,346.806039489 cartons.
Cooking at home is not really that hard. With my trusty cast iron, I can whip up chicken, fish, beef, in no time at all with a couple of sides. Little bit of prep but basically you don't really spend that much more time than watching some frozen entree spin around in the microwave for 20 minutes.
You could use plastic conveyor belt powder in German cookies now that they are dropping the sawdust additive.
If you include the weight of the truck.
First they spray paint the Grille Marks on it, Dice it, Then ParSteamed, Tumbled in the Tumble-matic 2000 (to mix), Weighed out with a Splash of Béchamel Sauce, , Flash Frozen and packaged for the Consumer’s to Consumerize.
Wait, I thought the bits of plastic were the improvement.
lead cuisine? nothing i have to worry about...
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