{"id":2817,"date":"2026-04-08T22:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/?p=2817"},"modified":"2026-04-08T22:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:07:18","slug":"walmarts-dino-nugget-recall-is-retracted-after-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/?p=2817","title":{"rendered":"Walmart\u2019s Dino Nugget Recall Is Retracted After Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-journey-body=\"standard-article\">\n<div class=\"css-hl6xtf e1wzc3k51\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.delish.com\/_assets\/design-tokens\/fre\/static\/icons\/clock-regular.4ddebeb.svg\" alt=\"Estimated read time\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><span class=\"css-1rzbsk9 e1wzc3k50\">1 min read<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1jx1kps etlajd3\">\n<div data-theme-key=\"collapsible-section\" class=\"css-p1fz9n e1q3dcg6\">\n<h3 data-theme-key=\"collapsible-header\" class=\"css-1fv4nwp e1q3dcg5\"><button aria-label=\"Hide Key Points section\" aria-expanded=\"true\" data-theme-key=\"collapsible-header-button\" class=\"css-ec8vqf e1q3dcg4\"><\/p>\n<div data-theme-key=\"collapsible-icon-wrapper\" data-collapsible-open=\"true\" class=\"css-lhm19 e1q3dcg0\"><span data-testid=\"iconRight\" data-theme-key=\"collapsible-icon-right\" class=\"css-1ep4808 e1q3dcg1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.delish.com\/_assets\/design-tokens\/fre\/static\/icons\/caret-right-regular.a6ec664.svg\" alt=\"Caret Right\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/h3>\n<div aria-hidden=\"false\" data-theme-key=\"collapsible-section-text\" class=\"css-nzvxqj e1q3dcg3\">\n<div class=\"css-ex91la etlajd2\">\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Great Value\u2019s dinosaur chicken nuggets were recalled earlier this month after routine sampling flagged high levels of lead.<\/li>\n<li>Following a thorough investigation, health officials concluded that the result from the initial sample was a false positive.<\/li>\n<li>The USDA\u2019s Food Safety and Inspection Service retracted the original recall notice and told consumers that the nuggets are safe to eat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Families across the country were checking their freezers after a popular brand of chicken nuggets was recalled last week. According to the public health alert issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s Food Safety and Inspection Service (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fsis.usda.gov\/recalls-alerts\/fsis-issues-public-health-alert-frozen-dinosaur-shaped-ready-eat-chicken-nuggets-due\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.fsis.usda.gov\/recalls-alerts\/fsis-issues-public-health-alert-frozen-dinosaur-shaped-ready-eat-chicken-nuggets-due\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"FSIS\" data-node-id=\"0.7\" class=\"body-link css-8bav6j emevuu60\">FSIS<\/a>), Great Value Fully Cooked Dino Shaped Chicken Breast Nuggets contained potentially unsafe levels of lead.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">But now, there\u2019s no need to send those nuggets back into extinction\u2014because the FSIS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fsis.usda.gov\/recalls-alerts\/fsis-issues-public-health-alert-frozen-dinosaur-shaped-ready-eat-chicken-nuggets-due\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.fsis.usda.gov\/recalls-alerts\/fsis-issues-public-health-alert-frozen-dinosaur-shaped-ready-eat-chicken-nuggets-due\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"just retracted\" data-node-id=\"1.1\" class=\"body-link css-8bav6j emevuu60\">just retracted<\/a> its original April 1 recall notice. (It may seem like an April Fools\u2019 Day prank gone wrong, but the date is just a coincidence.)<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"2\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">The nuggets implicated in the recall were sold in 29-ounce bags in Walmart freezer aisles nationwide. The public health alert was released after a state partner conducting routine surveillance sampling flagged an issue to FSIS. At the time of the recall, the agency was still investigating the potential contamination\u2014but because the nuggets are commonly consumed by children, it issued the alert out of an abundance of caution.<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"watch-next\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-22\" data-node-id=\"3\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<section data-embed=\"editorial-link\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-23\" data-node-id=\"4\" class=\"embed\">\n<aside class=\"css-1fm2v8u e94w1mj13\">\n<h2 class=\"css-1xumt3f e94w1mj11\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" data-theme-key=\"title-design-element-before\" class=\"css-0 e68yk9k0\"\/><span class=\"css-0 e94w1mj10\">Related Story<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\" data-theme-key=\"title-design-element-after\" class=\"css-0 e68yk9k1\"\/><\/h2>\n<\/aside>\n<\/section>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"5\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">After additional testing was conducted, health officials concluded that the nuggets, in fact, don\u2019t contain elevated levels of lead. The initial result that prompted the recall was a false positive, according to the FSIS. The error was apparently caused by sporadic lead contamination at the testing laboratory, not by the chicken nuggets themselves.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"6\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">In light of the discovery, FSIS notes that the product does not pose a public health concern. Consumers can continue eating the chicken nuggets as normal, and parents have one fewer thing to stress over at snack time.<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"editorial-link\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-24\" data-node-id=\"7\" class=\"embed\">\n<aside class=\"css-u95ltk e94w1mj3\"\/><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 min read Great Value\u2019s dinosaur chicken nuggets were recalled earlier this month after routine sampling flagged high levels of lead. Following a thorough investigation, health officials concluded that the result from the initial sample was a false positive. The USDA\u2019s Food Safety and Inspection Service retracted the original recall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}