Hot Pockets Recalled For Containing Diseased Animals

When you’re looking for that “crispy, crunchy, tender, flaky crust”, you know you’ve found it with a quality product like Hot Pockets… or did you? If you’ve consumed your weight (and who w...
Hot Pockets Recalled For Containing Diseased Animals
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When you’re looking for that “crispy, crunchy, tender, flaky crust”, you know you’ve found it with a quality product like Hot Pockets… or did you?

If you’ve consumed your weight (and who wouldn’t?) in Hot Pockets’ “Philly Steak and Cheese” and “Croissant Crust Philly Steak and Cheese” then there’s some bad news for you: the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that those particular products contained “diseased and unsound animals.”

An estimated 238,000 cases of Hot Pockets were recalled by Nestlé in a company press release on Tuesday.

The products were part of a larger meat recall issued by Rancho Feeding Corp. last week of 8,742,700 pounds of beef product; that’s roughly 6600 large bred cows.

The tainted meat spread to 1,000 California retailers as well as other companies in Alabama, Florida, Oregon, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Washington.

Below are the following infectious items:

 Item and pack size Consumer UPC Batch Code Best Before Date
  1. HOT POCKETS Philly Steak and Cheese
    8x9ozUS
43695 07107 8 3021544512
3029544512
3197544512
3240544512
MAR ‘14
MAR ‘14
SEP ‘14
OCT ‘14
  1. HOT POCKETS Philly Steak and Cheese
    4x54oz US
43695 07520 5 3022544513
3191544512
3224544512
3254544512
3268544512
MAR ‘14
SEP ‘14
OCT ‘14
NOV ‘14
NOV ‘14
  1. HOT POCKETS Philly Steak and Cheese 4×22.5ozUS
43695 15990 5 3197544512
3240544512
SEP ‘14
OCT ‘14
  1. HOT POCKETS CROISSANT CRUST Philly Steak and Cheese 8x9ozUS
43695 05634 1 3211544512
3248544512
3283544512
SEP ‘14
NOV ‘14
DEC ‘14

Having second thoughts about sinking your teeth in those hot juicy pockets of wonder?

Unless autopsy reports are still in progress, no illnesses have been reported.

Just listen to Snoop Dogg and don’t think about it:

If you still haven’t microwaved your greasy snacks or are feeling the after effects of a USDA Class 1 recall, you can contact Nestle Consumer Services for a refund at 1-800-392-4057(image)1-800-392-4057.

Meanwhile over at Hot Pockets’ Facebook Page, PR is regurgitating responses of possible epidemics of regurgitation:
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Images via Hot Pockets’ Facebook Page

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