Tyson Foods controversies

Company response

• Recall — Tyson Foods

  Tyson Foods expanded the recall and added more than 450,000 pounds of chicken products to the initial 8.5 million pounds of chicken.

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• Tyson Foods expanded the recall and added more than 450,000 pounds of chicken products to the initial 8.5 million pounds of chicken.

• "While there is no conclusive evidence that the products were contaminated at the time of shipment, the recall is being initiated out of an abundance of caution," Tyson Foods said in a statement.

• According to CBS News, the new notice that was posted last weekend by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service added more batches of Tyson Foods chicken products due to listeria risks.

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• Tyson Foods recalls close to 4,500 tons of chicken products after finding out some products have been tainted with bacteria.

• The recall involves three dozen products containing pre-cooked chicken marketed under the Tyson and other labels.

• Further investigation revealed one death besides the two listeriosis cases traced to pre-cooked chicken produced by Dexter, Missouri-based Tyson Foods, according to a statement from the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service.

Company response

• Recall — Stewart's

  Stewart's has issued a recall of multiple chicken products.

• Recall — Tyson

  On Saturday, the food company announced that it is voluntarily recalling about 8.5 million pounds of frozen and cooked chicken products that may have been contaminated with listeria.

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• Stewart's has issued a recall of multiple chicken products.

• Stewart's officials say that those products may be contaminated with listeria.

• The affected products include chicken strips, chicken pizza and pulled chicken breasts that were sold under brand names including Tyson, Jet's Pizza and Casey's General Store, according to Tyson.

Company response

• Recall — Tyson Foods

  Tyson Foods Inc. is recalling approximately 8,492,832 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) chicken products that may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes.

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• The department said that the products may have been contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, a species of pathogenic bacteria that causes the infection listeriosis.

• 该公司表示，此次召回涉及大约850万磅可能被李斯特菌（Listeria monocytogenes）污染的即食鸡肉产品。

• Tyson Food Inc. is recalling about 8.5 million pounds of ready-to-eat chicken products due to contamination concerns, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service stated in a press release.

Company response

• Remediation — Tyson

  Tyson will take all reasonable and appropriate steps to address and remediate the causes and impacts from the 2019 wastewater spill.

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• The State of Alabama has agreed to a $3 million settlement with Tyson Farms, Inc., the world’s second largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef, and pork, over the company’s 2019 wastewater spill in the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River.

• An estimated 220,000 gallons of wastewater entered the river on June 6, 2019, killing approximately 175,000 fish.

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• It determined that federal regulations cited by Tyson were not preemptive of the plaintiffs’ claims

• They alleged that the defendants did not enforce safety measures which could have prevented COVID-19 from spreading through the workplace.

• A personal injury lawsuit relating to Tyson’s alleged negligence in protecting its employees during the COVID-19 pandemic was appealed by the defendants, Tyson and some individuals working as supervisors and safety coordinators, to the Fifth Circuit and docketed in that court on Wednesday.

Company response

• Remediation — Tyson

  Tyson voluntarily corrected its Form 204s once the CFTC Enforcement Division informed the company of its reporting errors.

• Investigation — Tyson

  Tyson took the further step of investigating its recordkeeping and reporting procedures and self-reported to the CFTC additional issues

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• Tyson took the further step of investigating its recordkeeping and reporting procedures and self-reported to the CFTC additional issues

• Tyson voluntarily corrected its Form 204s once the CFTC Enforcement Division informed the company of its reporting errors.

• On August 13, 2021, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC” or “Commission”) approved a settlement to resolve allegations that Tyson Foods, Inc. (“Tyson”) exceeded the CFTC’s position limits for soybean meal futures contracts and failed to comply with related reporting and recordkeeping obligations with respect to its soybean meal and corn positions.

Company response

• Recall — Tyson Foods Inc.

  Tyson Foods Inc. is recalling 8,955,296 pounds of ready-to-eat chicken after multiple cases of Listeria monocytogenes were linked to Tyson products.

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• The USDA has expanded the recall of Tyson products to nearly 9 million pounds, including chicken wraps and salads sold at Circle K gas stations.

• One death from listeriosis was linked to Tyson products, a release from the Food Safety and Inspection Service reported.

Company response

• Refund or compensation — Stewart’s Shops

  If customers have purchased any of the following products, they may return them for a full refund or exchange.

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• Please note, Tyson Foods Inc. has expanded their product recall and this has impacted additional coded Now and Then Chicken Riggies and Now and Then Chicken Alfredo products.

• Due to a nationwide Tyson Foods Inc. chicken recall for possible listeria, Stewart’s Shops is recalling the following products.

• Customers who purchased any of the items listed above are urged to return them to their local Stewart’s Shops for a full refund.

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• The new lawsuit alleges the conspiracy included plaintiffs Tyson Foods, Pilgrim's Pride, Perdue Farms, Koch Foods, Sanderson Farms, JCG Foods, Raeford Farms, Mar-Jac Poultry, Wayne Farms, Fieldale Farms, George's Farms, Simmons Foods, O.K. Foods, Peco Foods, Harrison Poultry, Foster Farms, Claxton Poultry, Mountaire Farms, Amick Farms, Case Farms and Agri Stats Inc.

• OMAHA (DTN) -- Boston Market Corp. has filed a federal lawsuit against a group of poultry companies, alleging the companies conspired to manipulate the price of broilers from 2008 to 2017, costing Boston Market Corp. hundreds of millions of dollars in overcharges.

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• The chicken-sandwich giant alleged in a lawsuit filed Friday in a federal court in Illinois that top chicken suppliers, including Tyson Foods Inc., Pilgrim’s Pride Corp., Sanderson Farms Inc. and Perdue Farms Inc., coordinated pricing for meat supplies and collectively reduced production to push up prices.

• The fast-food chain Chick-fil-A is suing a string of high-profile chicken suppliers, accusing them of illegally coordinating with one another to keep prices artificially high on billions of dollars of poultry.

• The suit accuses chicken producers of using a spreadsheet called AgriStats to engage in bid-rigging in an “unlawful conspiracy” to ensure that chicken prices were artificially raised.

Company response

• Denial — Tyson Foods

  Tyson has not yet answered the most recent claims but lean on their stated safety record and say they vigorously dispute the allegations in the suit

• Clarification — Tyson Foods

  In a statement provided to the WCF, Tyson Foods spokesman Gary Mickelson said he could not comment on the lawsuit but said that Tyson initiated safety procedures to help protect workers, including temperature checks, facemasks, workplace dividers and social distancing measures and didn't reopen the plant until it was signed off on by the local meatworker's union and government officials.

• Denial — Tyson Foods

  Tyson says the deaths are tragic but that it vigorously disputes claims of wrongdoing.

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• accuses company officials of making anti-gay slurs, filing false information in workers' compensation cases and discriminating based on sex and age.

• Todd Beresford filed the lawsuit Oct. 1 in state district court in Des Moines against Tyson Fresh Meats, based in South Dakota, and its parent Arkansas-based Tyson Foods

• The children of a Tyson Foods meatpacker in Columbus Junction who died of COVID-19 have sued the company over what they say was a lack of protective measures for its workers.