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PERDUE CHICKEN BREAST (Sliced)

Gabriela Bambrick
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As a background, I live in a completely gluten-free home. I recently bough a large batch (at Sams club) of Perdue Chicken sliced breasts.  Shortly after beginning to use them, I noticed I was sick from cross contamination.  I was going NUTS.  I threw away my toaster (in case my cleaning lady had "accidentally" used it), I threw away all my opened jelly's, mayo, butter, spices, etc etc. I cleaned my fridge (which already gets cleaned every two weeks) and I could not identify what was making me sick.  I went on vacation for two weeks to an airbnb (I thoroughly cleaned the dishes etc). I bought local chicken and used all the same brands of other things (spices, gluten-free bread, milk, cheese, etc) and felt 100% better.  As soon as I came back and used the frozen chicken, I began to feel sick again.  Although I have no proof, I believe the chicken is what is making me sick.  BEWARE of using Perdue chicken products. 

 

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It there any chance you ate other things besides the chicken? I ask because the ingredients are just chicken, and nothing else. If cross contamination with wheat were possible, they would have to include this as an allergen warning.

Also, it's possible there is salmonella or other pathogen on the chicken which could cause similar symptoms.

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Thank you for your thoughts.   I unfortunatelly did not.  I have been a celiac for 18 years (or at least diagnosed), my brother and daughter are also celiac so we have been to many cross contamination rodeos and at this point, so we know to be very strategic about taking out/introducing one food at a time. 

We methodically eliminated every food, as you read, no gluten comes into the home, as soon as we stopped eating the chicken we (daughter and I) felt better.  If it was salmonella or any other pathogen, the whole family would have felt it but it was just Maria and I.  

I can not say for certain that it was the chicken but when everything else was eliminated and we ate literally plain chicken and water to test we still felt sick.  Who knows! 

Scott Adams Grand Master
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Actually with food poisoning from a pathogen not everyone gets sick. An example of this would be my daughter who just went to Mexico with her best friend--her best friend got travelers dysentery and needed antibiotics, while my daughter had zero issues. They ate and drank the same things throughout their trip. I still think this is possible, and gluten in raw chicken breasts would be less likely. 

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On 8/2/2024 at 6:17 AM, Gabriela Bambrick said:

Thank you for your thoughts.   I unfortunatelly did not.  I have been a celiac for 18 years (or at least diagnosed), my brother and daughter are also celiac so we have been to many cross contamination rodeos and at this point, so we know to be very strategic about taking out/introducing one food at a time. 

We methodically eliminated every food, as you read, no gluten comes into the home, as soon as we stopped eating the chicken we (daughter and I) felt better.  If it was salmonella or any other pathogen, the whole family would have felt it but it was just Maria and I.  

I can not say for certain that it was the chicken but when everything else was eliminated and we ate literally plain chicken and water to test we still felt sick.  Who knows! 

If they are frozen and coated with chicken broth then it could have yeast extract from barley. They don’t have to disclose that. I’ve found some brands of chicken broth with barley. 

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This is fresh chicken breast so I don't think so, but who knows?

Gabriela Bambrick Newbie
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Thank you! RE:  barley broth!!! that's crazy! 

I am going to get my chicken from the farmers market and I hope that does it. 

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Scott, while you are correct, different people have different immunity to pathogens as a physician and a Mexican (born, raised and trained in Mexico) I have seen (and experienced) food poisoning, salmonella, shigella, amoebiasis, parasitosis, you name it.  We all do at some point in Mexico.  This was not it.  We will never know, I don't know if perdue sliced their chicken breasts right next to where they bread them, or if the person who just finished doing chicken fingers then worked on the chicken breasts.  They have allergens in their plants as they also sell wheat containing chicken products.   Who knows! 

 

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