- Banquet Foods
Banquet Foods is a company that sells food products - primarily frozen
chicken - and still exists as the brand name on many prepared chicken products sold byConAgra Foods . Banquet was founded in 1966 through the merger ofBright Foods ofTurlock, California , andFM Stamper ofMoberly, Missouri . Soon after that, Banquet became popular with their "Cooking Bags" products. In 1970, the company was purchased byRCA , which in turn sold it toConAgra in 1980.Banquet is known primarily for a frozen breaded chicken, but expanded into other chicken products over the years, including chicken
pot pie s,chicken nugget s, ready-to-heat microwavable dinners andbuffalo wing s. In June 2001, ConAgra introduced Banquet Homestyle Bakes - ready to bake dinner kits in 11 varieties. The Banquet brand is also on Banquet Dessert Bakes - no-bakepie andcake mix es -- and on Banquet Crock-Pot Classics frozen meals.Product incidents
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October 11 ,2007 , food manufacturerConAgra asked stores to pull its Banquet and generic brand chicken and turkey pot pies due to 152 cases ofsalmonella poisoning in 31 states being linked to the consumption of ConAgra pot pies, with 20 people hospitalized. ByOctober 12 , a full recall was announced, affecting all varieties of frozen pot pies sold under the brands Banquet,Albertson’s ,Cub Foods ,Food Lion ,Great Value ,Hill Country Fare ,Kirkwood ,Kroger ,Meijer , andWestern Family . The recalled pot pies included all varieties in 7-oz. single-serving packages bearing the number P-9 or “Est. 1059” printed on the side of the package. [ St. Cloud Times [http://www.sctimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071013/NEWS01/110120058/1009 "ConAgra Foods recalls all pot pies". Retrieved 10-13-2007] ]External links
* [http://www.banquetbrand.com/ Banquet page on Conagra.com]
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