Costco recalls chicken sausage links after pork mix-up at Midwest stores

A pork mix-up inside Jones Dairy Farm chicken sausage links sold at select Midwest Costco warehouses turned a routine recall into a frontline trust problem for meat teams, returns desks and member service staff. The recalled product is Jones Dairy Farm Chicken Sausage Links, Costco item 1211239, and affected packages may have been bought between May 1 and May 28 with a used-by date of April 29, 2027.

Jones Dairy Farm said the problem came from a production error that introduced a small amount of pork links during packing. The company described it as an isolated event affecting a limited amount of product and told customers to return impacted packages to Costco for a full refund. Costco said it posts recall and product notice information on its recalls page as soon as possible because customers have a right to know when a product’s safety, reliability or functionality has been proven otherwise.

That language matters on the sales floor. When a package labeled chicken can contain pork, the issue is not just taste or quality. It reaches directly into dietary, religious and personal restrictions, which is why a mislabeling like this can create more member frustration than a standard food recall. For Costco workers, the immediate burden falls on the people who have to answer item-number questions, explain the purchase window and process returns without turning the desk into a debate over how serious the mistake was.

For supervisors and department managers, the recall is another example of how a vendor or packing error can create extra labor across multiple teams in a high-volume warehouse. Meat department employees may field the first questions, but the problem quickly moves to returns and member service, especially when the product sits in a refrigerated case that moves fast and reaches a wide cross-section of shoppers.

Jones Dairy Farm is a family-owned company based in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. The Food Safety and Inspection Service lists the company at 801 Rockwell Ave., Fort Atkinson, WI 53538, and says it is responsible for ensuring meat and poultry are safe and properly labeled and packaged. FSIS also says its labeling rules are meant to protect consumers from misbranded and economically adulterated meat, poultry and egg products, which is why a pork-in-chicken mix-up is more than a kitchen mistake. It is a labeling failure that can shake confidence in every package that follows.