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Kayem Foods Inc. Recalls Ready-To-Eat Chicken Sausage Products Due to Possible Foreign Matter Contamination

Closed Recall (2025) USDA FSIS Recall Class I Physical

Read the agency's notice · machine-readable source record · Agency id: 026-2025

What the agency said

Product
11-oz. vacuum-packed packages containing four pieces of “ALL NATURAL al fresco CHICKEN SAUSAGE SWEET APPLE with Vermont made syrup” with lot code “179” and “USE/FRZ BY” date “OCT 01 2025” printed on…
Firm: Kayem Foods Inc.
Reason, as written
Product Contamination
Status, as written
Closed Recall (2025)

How this record is classified

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Hazard type
Physical
Inferred from the agency's wording by our rules
Organism, allergen, or material
Plastic or rubber
Inferred from the agency's wording by our rules (Foreign material)
Product category
Prepared foods
Inferred from the agency's wording by our rules · food tags: apples, chicken, pork, ready-to-eat meals
Geography
Unspecified
Not stated by the agency
Root cause
Not stated
Not stated by the agency
How it was found
Consumer complaint
Inferred from the agency's wording by our rules
“The problem was discovered after the firm notified FSIS that it received three consumer complaints reporting white pieces of plastic in the chicken sausage products.”
Corrective action
Voluntary recall
Stated by the agency
FSIS recall (all FSIS recalls are voluntary)
Status
Closed Recall (2025)
Closed in this dataset's terms
An administrative status: it tracks whether the agency has formally closed the record, not whether the product is still on shelves. Recalls often stay open for years after the food is gone.
Dates
Recall began: Jul 17, 2025
Reported by agency: Jul 17, 2025
Last agency update: Aug 1, 2025
Closed: date not given

What is missing or inferred

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Record history

First seen by this site Sep 17, 2026, 2:29 PM UTC (loaded from the agency's history when the dataset was first built). Last changed Sep 17, 2026, 2:29 PM UTC. No tracked field has changed since.

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