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Kirkland Signature Lightly Breaded Chicken Breast Chunks, Boneless Skinless, 4 lbs Frozen Unknown
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Who makes Kirkland Signature Lightly Breaded Chicken Breast Chunks, Boneless Skinless, 4 lbs?

Manufacturer
Not established
Citable fact

No reliable public evidence identifies the manufacturer of Kirkland Signature Lightly Breaded Chicken Breast Chunks, Boneless Skinless, 4 lbs as of July 6, 2026.

Verified July 6, 2026
The common claim vs. the evidence

The common claim

What most answers say — and what the evidence supports

There is no prevailing claim to debunk — the SERP is retail listings, recipe posts and reviews, and the who-makes-it listicles have not covered this newer SKU. General Kirkland-chicken suppliers (Lincoln Premium Poultry, Tyson, Perdue, Foster Farms) get floated for Costco poultry as a category, but no public source ties any of them to the lightly breaded chicken breast chunks, Costco does not disclose the maker, and no tier 1-5 evidence identifies one. The USDA establishment number printed on the package is the deterministic route left unread.

The honest part

Evidence & sources

Costco does not disclose its suppliers, and no tier 1–5 source names the maker of this product. Below is the documented search — every database and record we checked, and what each one returned.

What we checked — 7 databases & records on July 6, 2026
FSIS recall and public-health-alert records (fsis.usda.gov recall pages via web search; the FSIS recall site/API blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403) July 6, 2026

No FSIS recall or public-health alert on file names Kirkland Signature lightly breaded chicken breast chunks or a co-packer for them. Two large co-packer recalls that reached Costco were checked and did not name this SKU: the 2024 BrucePac ready-to-eat-poultry Listeria recall (dozens of retail brands) and a 2026 Griffith Foods milk-powder Salmonella recall affecting breaded-chicken products and Chick-fil-A milk wash. Breaded-chicken recalls often name co-packers, but none has surfaced one for this product.

FSIS Meat, Poultry and Egg Product Inspection (MPI) Establishment Directory July 6, 2026

No establishment lists a Kirkland- or Costco-branded breaded-chicken DBA. Costco owns poultry capacity — Lincoln Premium Poultry, Fremont NE (EST. P-48304), supplies much of its rotisserie and raw chicken — but no public source ties this fully-cooked breaded product to that plant or to any establishment number. The USDA P-number printed on the bag would resolve the co-packer deterministically; it has not been read from a current package for this check.

Costco.com product-detail page / manufacturer (mfName) field (via 2026-01-26 Wayback snapshot; costco.com blocks live fetch) July 6, 2026

The Costco PDP for the 4-lb chunks (item 4000202951) was retrieved from the Wayback snapshot and its embedded catalog JSON carries no usable manufacturer disclosure — the mfName field is an unmigrated placeholder reading 'DO NOT DELETE' (and null elsewhere), so unlike the Kirkland meatballs page it names no plant. The Costco Business Delivery listing (item 2001153194) has no Wayback snapshot.

Product/ingredient databases (Open Food Facts, Cooklist, Fooducate, Spoonful, EWG Food Scores) July 6, 2026

All carry ingredients and nutrition only; none lists a manufacturer, brand owner, packager code, or USDA establishment number for the product. Open Food Facts (barcode 0126333951786) records the brand as Kirkland Signature and nothing about who produces it.

News and executive-statement sweep (food press, Google/Bing news) July 6, 2026

No Costco or supplier statement names the maker of this product. Coverage is limited to reviews and a quality-complaint piece; the general who-makes-Kirkland-chicken content mills discuss Costco's poultry sourcing broadly (Lincoln Premium Poultry, Tyson, Perdue, Foster Farms) without evidence for this specific breaded SKU, which is relatively new (introduced around 2025).

CourtListener / RECAP federal court records (API v4 opinion search) July 6, 2026

No litigation naming a Kirkland breaded-chicken supplier found; the handful of keyword hits are unrelated cases (trademark, election law).

ImportYeti (US customs bills of lading) July 6, 2026

Structurally uninformative here: fully-cooked breaded chicken sold in US warehouses is produced and packed domestically, so an absence of import records proves nothing about the co-packer (tier 5 caveat). No route to a maker via customs data.

People also ask

Frequently asked

Who makes Kirkland Signature lightly breaded chicken breast chunks?
No reliable public evidence identifies the manufacturer. Costco does not disclose it — its own product page leaves the manufacturer field blank (an unmigrated 'DO NOT DELETE' placeholder in the January 2026 snapshot) — and a documented sweep of FSIS recall records, the federal meat-and-poultry establishment directory, product databases, court records and news coverage turned up no tier 1-5 source naming a co-packer. General Kirkland-chicken suppliers such as Lincoln Premium Poultry, Tyson and Perdue get floated for Costco poultry, but none has been tied to this specific product.
Is Kirkland breaded chicken the same as Just Bare?
That is not publicly documented. Just Bare Lightly Breaded Chicken Breast Chunks — the viral 'Chick-fil-A-style' product also sold at Costco — is the name-brand item shoppers compare the Kirkland version against, but no public source connects the two products or names a shared maker.
Where are Kirkland breaded chicken chunks made?
Not publicly documented. Costco owns poultry operations — Lincoln Premium Poultry in Fremont, Nebraska (USDA EST. P-48304) supplies much of its rotisserie and raw chicken — but no public source connects the fully-cooked lightly breaded chicken breast chunks to that plant or to any establishment number. The USDA P-number printed on the bag would resolve the co-packer deterministically; it has not been read from a current package for this check.
Have Kirkland lightly breaded chicken breast chunks been recalled?
No. No FSIS recall or public-health alert on file names Kirkland Signature lightly breaded chicken breast chunks (checked July 6, 2026). Two large 2024-2026 co-packer recalls that reached Costco — the BrucePac cooked-poultry Listeria recall and a Griffith Foods milk-powder Salmonella recall affecting breaded-chicken products — did not name this SKU, so the recall route has never surfaced a co-packer for it.
Prefer the name brand? Just Bare Lightly Breaded Chicken Breast Chunks The closest name-brand equivalent to this Kirkland Signature product.

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