Kayem Foods

When Cooling Becomes the Bottleneck: What the Kayem Foods Recall Teaches About Thermal Process Design

A worker opens the door to a smoker at Kayem Foods' Chelsea, Massachusetts plant. Photo by Jesse Costa/WBUR. In October 2026, Kayem Foods announced a voluntary recall of approximately 1,584,361 pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry products. The company attributed the recall to a malfunction in a cooling system at one of its warehouses, which...