Costco’s rotisserie chickenis at the center of a new class action lawsuit, with an animal rights nonprofit alleging that the retailer’s Nebraska processing plant is contaminated with Salmonella.
Filed Thursday in Seattle federal court by plaintiff Lisa Taylor, of Affton, Missouri, the proposed suit cites a December Farm Forward study criticizing safety conditions at Costco’s Lincoln Premium Poultry plant, which opened in 2019 and processes over 100 million chickens annually, Reuters reports.
