--- title: Whole Foods Chicken Salad Recalled as Tuna description: Willow Tree Poultry Farm is recalling 440 pounds of chicken salad products because they contain tuna canonical: https://time.com/4843860/whole-foods-chicken-tuna-salad-recall/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-03T17:07:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:25:25.074Z article:section: Health og:title: Whole Foods Discovered Its Chicken Salad Actually Had Tuna og:description: 440 pounds of chicken salad were recalled og:url: https://time.com/4843860/whole-foods-chicken-tuna-salad-recall/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt413155663403a15b/6988d454096a94f4c169ea01/whole-foods-chicken-salad-recall-store.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3948 og:image:height: 2221 og:image:alt: Whole Foods Market In Boston og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Whole Foods Discovered Its Chicken Salad Actually Had Tuna twitter:description: 440 pounds of chicken salad were recalled twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt413155663403a15b/6988d454096a94f4c169ea01/whole-foods-chicken-salad-recall-store.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Whole Foods Discovered Its Chicken Salad Actually Had Tuna > Sponsored content. 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The company will be bought by Amazon for $13.7 billion. (Photo by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)David L. Ryan—The Boston Globe/Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Jul 3, 2017 5:07 PM UTC Willow Tree Poultry Farm had a [2003-era Jessica Simpson moment](http://people.com/tv/jessica-simpson-chicken-of-the-sea-meme/) after shipping chicken salad that turned out to contain tuna instead to Whole Foods. The farm is [recalling](http://time.com/4832489/hong-kong-20th-anniversary-handover-chris-patten/) about 440 pounds of buffalo chicken salad after [Whole Foods](http://fortune.com/2017/06/22/amazon-buying-whole-foods-disruption/) employees discovered that it actually contained tuna — a known allergen, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The affected products, which are 12.5-ounce individual packets, were shipped to Whole Foods locations in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York. No illnesses have been reported yet. 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