Costco’s popular rotisserie chicken is at the center of another lawsuit, this one claiming that a chicken processing plant in Nebraska is afflicted by salmonella contamination, possibly affecting hundreds of millions of the birds sold through the warehouses.
A proposed class-action lawsuit filed in federal court in Seattle on behalf of a customer cites a study by animal rights nonprofit Farm Forward that criticized safety conditions at Costco’s Lincoln Premium Poultry plant in Fremont, Nebraska.
The study claims that the plant “consistently fails USDA salmonella safety standards year after year” and that it sends “unsafe chickens to stores nationwide.” Farm Forward says on its website that its mission is to “end factory farming.”…