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    Lean Cuisine Recalls Chicken Meals For Containing Plastic Pieces

    Lean Cuisine is recalling 900,000 pounds of its entrees after "several consumers" reported finding blue plastic in the product. If you have the Pesto Chicken with Bow Tie Pasta, the Chicken Mediterranean or the Chicken Tuscan varieties, here are the UPC and production codes of the affected batches.

    Café Classics Pesto Chicken with Bow Tie Pasta

    UPC code: 1380017117

    - and -

    Production code (on gray strip on side of package) starts with 82805959
    Best Before May 2010

    Spa Cuisine Chicken Mediterranean

    UPC code: 1380016612

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    Production code (on gray strip on side of package) starts with any of the following:

    82315959
    82415959
    Best Before September 2010

    82635959
    82695959
    82745959
    Best Before October 2010

    82915959
    83015959
    Best Before November 2010

    Dinnertime Selects Chicken Tuscan

    UPC code: 1380014890

    - and -

    Production code (on gray strip on side of package) starts with any of the following:

    82345959
    Best Before September 2009

    82535959
    82695959
    Best Before October 2009

    82925959
    82965959
    Best Before November 2009

    If your product matches any of the above numbers, Lean Cuisine says to "return [it] to the place of purchase for a full refund."

    The information above was taken from the Lean Cuisine info line at (800) 993-8625. (To get to the recall info, press 2, then press 1.)

    "Nestle Recalls 900,000 Pounds of Lean Cuisine" [ABC News]
    "Lean Cuisine recalls frozen chicken meals" [Los Angeles Times]

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