Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Lean Cuisine recall

NBC4i's article by Donna Willis states that Nestle is recalling some of its Lean Cuisine products.

Health Risk Causes Frozen Meal Recall


Nestle Prepared Foods recalled more than 879,000 pounds of frozen chicken meals that could contain foreign materials, NBC 4 reported.

The problem was discovered after the company received consumer complaints and a report of one injury. Nestle identified the foreign objects as small pieces of hard plastic.

This is a Class 1 Recall or one the USDA considers a high health risk.

Here are the products under the recall: Lean Cuisine Pesto Chicken with Bow Tie Pasta, Lean Cuisine Chicken Mediterranean and Lean Cuisine Chicken Tuscan.


According to a Harris Teeter supermarket chain release, there were pieces of plastic found in the frozen meals were blue.

Who said that dieting was easy?