Wegmans Recalls Chicken French Meals Due to Listeria Risk
Wegmans Food Markets is recalling Chicken French meals potentially contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Consumers should discard or return the product.
The agency’s classification
FDA (Food): Class III
Class III is a situation in which use of or exposure to a violative product is not likely to cause adverse health consequences.
This is the agency’s own classification, taken from its notice. The severity score below is our assessment, not the agency’s. How recall classes work
What this means for you
Our assessment, not the agency’s: severity 3/5 (High).
Real risk of harm even if no illness or injury has been reported yet. Stop using the product and follow the agency's guidance.
Our severity reasoning: The recall involves a high-risk pathogen (Listeria monocytogenes) without reported illness, which corresponds to a severity score of 3 (High) per the rubric.
Plain-English summary
Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. is recalling Wegmans Chicken French individual and family meals. The product is packaged in plastic clamshells and requires refrigeration. The recall involves 2,688 total units sold.
The recall was initiated because the products are potentially contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The affected products were purchased from August 5, 2020, through August 7, 2020. They were distributed in Virginia, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and New York.
Consumers who have purchased these products should discard them or return them to the place of purchase. The specific UPC codes and sell-by dates for the affected items are listed in the recall details.
The recalled product
- Product
- Wegmans Chicken French; Individual or Family Meals; plastic clamshell; keep refrigerated; size varies
- Manufacturer
- Wegmans Food Markets, Inc.
- Category
- Food — Deli / Ready-to-Eat
- Hazard
- Affected units
- 2,688
Distribution
Part of a larger recall action
This product is one of 23 recalled by Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. under a single FDA (Food) recall action. The agency files each product separately, so the size of the action is not visible from this page alone.
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