A recall from meat producer BrucePac has grown to nearly 12 million pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry items due to possible listeria contamination, after the company, which is based in Durant, Oklahoma, recalled over 9 million pounds of products last week.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service issued an announcement on Oct. 15 sharing new details about an expansion of the earlier Oct. 9 BrucePac recall to include additional products and production dates, adding that some of the items were sent to U.S. schools.
“Details of this release were updated to note the addition of 1,779,040 pounds of product subject to recall, increasing the weight from 9,986,245 to 11,765,285 pounds,” the announcement read. “This recall release has also been updated to reflect that recalled products were also distributed to schools. A school distribution list is not available at this time.”