Costco faces a second lawsuit centered on its rotisserie chicken, as an animal rights nonprofit claimed that a chicken processing plant in Nebraska suffers from salmonella contamination.
The proposed class action lawsuit, filed in federal court in Seattle on Feb. 12 and obtained by USA TODAY, points to a study by 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 "end factory farming."
"Costco’s failure to control salmonella in its chicken supply is not a harmless technicality—it poses a real danger to consumers and violates their trust," the complaint reads.
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