USDA: Recall of More Than 3 Million Pounds of Meat Products Expanded After Injury Reports

California’s Foster Farms recalled more than a dozen corn dog products over wood pieces being embedded in the batter, officials say.

A woman shops in the refrigerated section of a supermarket in Western Australia on May 4, 2024. Susan Mortimer/The Epoch Times

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) food inspection service announced that Foster Poultry Farms has expanded the recall of millions of pounds of frozen corn dog products sold around the United States.

Earlier this month, the California-based company said it recalled 3,961,138 pounds of chicken and turkey corn dogs because there may be wood pieces embedded in the batter, according to the USDA. On Oct. 17, the company included 118,098 additional pounds in the recall due to embedded wood.

All of the impacted products have the establishment number “P-6137B” printed on the packaging or within the USDA mark of inspection, according to the news release.

The products were shipped to both retail and institutional locations across the United States, which includes donations to the Department of Defense and USDA Commodity Foods, it said. The products were also sent to schools but were due to private commercial sales and not via the USDA school lunch program.

The recalled items were produced between July 30, 2024, and Aug. 5, 2025. They have best-by dates between late July 2025 through August 2026.

According to the release, the USDA classified the recall as Class I, or its highest-risk level that the agency says “involves a health hazard situation where there is a reasonable probability that use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death.”

The recall was initiated after the USDA received a complaint from a consumer that included an injury from consuming the impacted Foster Farms-produced corn dogs, the agency said. Foster Farms also received multiple complaints from consumers, including five injuries.

“Anyone concerned about an injury should contact a healthcare provider,” the news release said

The products could still be in consumers’ and institutions’ freezers and refrigerators, the USDA warned. People are urged not to consume them, and advised that the products should either be returned to the place of purchase or thrown out.

A product list was uploaded online by the USDA includes 16 different corn dog products under recall. A list of product labels was also released by the agency.

The Foster Farms recall comes weeks after a separate recall was initiated by The Hillshire Brands Company of approximately 58 million pounds for corn dog products that were also potentially contaminated with wood pieces, the agency said.

That problem was found after the company “received multiple consumer complaints, five of which involved injuries” connected to the recalled items, the USDA said. Hillshire Brands later found that wooden sticks used in the corn dog products  “entered the production process prior to product battering,” it said.