Suzanna’s Kitchen Chicken Recall: Alabama Product Guide
Updated: Oct 6
Reviewed and updated October 6, 2026.
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced on January 16, 2026 that Suzanna’s Kitchen was recalling about 13,720 pounds of ready-to-eat grilled chicken breast fillets after a third-party laboratory sample tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes.
The notice covered one bulk foodservice lot shipped to distribution centers in Alabama and six other states. It did not identify retail packages sold directly to household consumers. The original notice reported no confirmed illnesses; that was the status at the time of the announcement, not a promise that no later illness could be reported.
How to identify the recalled chicken
The government recall record, which reproduces the FSIS notice, identifies:
10-pound cases containing two 5-pound bags of fully cooked grilled chicken breast fillets with rib meat;
lot code 60104 P1382 287 5 J14 on the case and package;
establishment number P-1382 inside the USDA mark of inspection; and
an October 14, 2025 production date.
The product went to foodservice distribution centers in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Ohio. Distribution to a state does not establish that every restaurant, hospital, school, or other institution in that state received or served it.
Because this was a foodservice product, a diner may never have seen the case label. A person with a concrete concern should ask the establishment or institutional food provider whether its supplier received the identified lot. The appearance of a chicken entrée cannot answer that question.
What was confirmed—and what was not
The official record says a third-party laboratory sample of the ready-to-eat chicken was positive for Listeria monocytogenes. That supports the recall. It does not establish where contamination occurred, that every piece in the lot contained the organism, or that a particular meal caused a particular illness.
The January notice said there were no confirmed illness reports at that time. The current FSIS page did not yield a separately verifiable public status line during this review, so this article does not label the recall “active,” “closed,” or expanded. The linked agency notice remains the controlling product reference.
What to do if the product may have been served
Foodservice operators should follow the current FSIS instructions for the identified lot and ensure that affected product is not served. Consumers should not try to obtain or handle institutional packaging unnecessarily.
If illness is suspected:
seek medical advice, particularly for a pregnant person, newborn, adult 65 or older, or person with a weakened immune system;
give the clinician the meal date, establishment, symptoms, and recall information without claiming a source that has not been confirmed;
preserve the receipt, order history, remaining food, packaging available to you, and communications with the establishment;
ask the establishment to preserve supplier, lot, preparation, and incident records; and
report a meat or poultry concern through the USDA complaint system or Meat and Poultry Hotline at 1-888-674-6854.
The CDC’s Listeria symptom guidance explains that symptoms and risk vary. A recall match and compatible symptoms are important facts, but medical diagnosis, timing, laboratory evidence, and alternative exposures may still matter.
Recall evidence is a beginning, not the whole claim
A recall does not automatically establish that a restaurant, distributor, or manufacturer caused an individual illness. A viable claim may require proof of the exact product and lot, exposure, diagnosis, causation, recoverable loss, and the responsible part of the supply chain. The firm’s guide to dangerous items or contaminants in Alabama food explains why preservation and source records matter.
If an Alabama exposure to the identified lot produced a diagnosed illness or other documented injury, preserve the product trail and medical record and request an initial case evaluation.
Primary sources
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