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A Costco wholesale store in South San Francisco, Calif., is recalling at least 47,000 more pounds of rotisserie chicken and products made with the cooked bird — including foods sold directly to consumers through Oct. 15 — because they may be contaminated with salmonella linked to an ongoing outbreak.
U.S. Department of Agriculture food safety officials say it appears that the chicken was contaminated in the store's preparation area after cooking. The recall comes less than a week after the single Costco store at 1600 El Camino Real, South San Francisco, recalled about 40,000 pounds of cooked chicken and products tied to an outbreak associated with Foster Farms chicken that has sickened at least 317 people in 20 states.
The new recall includes 13,455 Kirkland Signature Foster Farms rotisserie chickens and 638 units of Kirkland Farm rotisserie chicken soup, cooked chicken leg quarters and chicken salad. The products were sold between Sept. 24 and Oct. 15, according to a notice issued Thursday by the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service.
The previous recall included 8,730 chickens and 313 units of prepared foods sold between Sept. 11 and Sept. 23. The birds weigh between 3 pounds and 4 pounds apiece, according to Craig Wilson, Costco's vice president of food safety. Based on a 3.5-pound chicken, that's an estimate of 47,000 pounds.
Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are tracking the outbreak, which has sent more than 40 percent of victims to hospitals, about twice the typical rate for salmonella illnesses. Some of the strains of salmonella detected in the outbreak are drug resistant and have caused illnesses in people that are hard to treat with some first-line antibiotics.
