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Costco opened its own chicken processing facility to keep costs down for their rotisserie chickens. The plant routinely fails inspections, but apparently the inspecting agency can't shut them down. Which is good for Costco, but not good for consumers.
We used to love the rotisserie chicken, but this gives me pause. Plus, the last few years we purchased usually had some feathers remnants we had to remove.
https://www.thestreet.com/retail/usda-costco-has-a...
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i would have guessed the demand for hotdogs could utilize feathers and a lot of other animal surplus ?
at costco, its the weight\volume that counts!
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Costco opened its own chicken processing facility to keep costs down for their rotisserie chickens. The plant routinely fails inspections, but apparently the inspecting agency can't shut them down. Which is good for Costco, but not good for consumers.
OK, but I don’t get the salmonella thing. The chickens are cooked at the local Costco, which (presumably) brings them to temperature which kills the pathogen, no? So (*and I am not advocating for fewer controls at the plant) how would they test for it at the plant, when they aren’t cooked yet?
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That's probably a separate issue. The inspections are more for cleanliness, I suspect. The recent lawsuit is about salmonella in cooked chickens. That would imply they don't have sufficient controls over that. I've watched their process, and it seems to be about time. They mount the chickens on a big skewer, put it in the oven, and hit a button. No temp probe that I have ever seen. They may check them after cooking, but I don't recall witnessing that. They really should.
