Lean Cuisine recall affects shoppers in Portland

If you are in to frozen foods you might want to read this! This week Nestle had to recall 3 types of frozen Lean Cuisine chicken meals, primarily in Oregon.

Utah-based Nestle Prepared Foods Company has recalled three varieties of frozen Lean Cuisine chicken meals, two of which were distributed in Oregon.

The entrees might contain small pieces of bright blue plastic, a high health risk, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service. Those meals are: Pesto Chicken with Bow Tie Pasta, Chicken Mediterranean and Chicken Tuscan, all produced between August 18 to October 27 and distributed to retail establishments nationwide.

The recall of roughly 1.2 million packages of food impacts Oregon shoppers who bought the products at Portland-area Albertsons stores and Clackamas Safeway stores.

One item -- the Pesto Chicken with Bow Tie Pasta, production code "8280595912" marked "Best Before MAY 2010" -- was not sold in Oregon, according to Nestle spokeswoman Roz O'Hearn.

But the other items were sold in Oregon.

Lean Cuisine Chicken Mediterranean, production code "8231595912" or "8241595912" marked "Best before SEP 2010"; production code "8263595912," "8269595911" or "8274595912," marked "Best before OCT 2010"; and production code "8291595912" or "8301595912" marked "Best before NOV 2010," were distributed locally at Albertsons in Portland and Safeways in Clackamas.

Lean Cuisine Chicken Tuscan, production code "8234595911" and marked "Best before SEP 2009"; production code "8253595911" or "8269595912" and marked "Best before OCT 2009"; and production code of "8292595911" or "8296595911" and marked "Best before NOV 2009," were distributed to Safeways in Clackamas.

Each package bears the USDA mark of inspection as well as the establishment number "EST P-9018."

Source: Oregon News