OXFORD, Maine — The deli in Walmart didn’t violate any food safety regulations, a state Department of Agriculture official said after sending an inspector there Wednesday.
Steve Giguere, acting director of the Division of Quality Assurance and Regulation with the Department of Agriculture, said the inspector couldn’t find any way maggots could have hatched on the chicken that Deena Tracy of Paris purchased Tuesday.
“The cooking logs were impeccable. They were all up to date,” Giguere said after speaking with the inspector. “The holding logs and temperatures were all up to date.”
He said the chicken comes into Walmart frozen. Sauces, such as the General Tso’s sauce used on Tracy’s chicken, comes in single-serving packets for each batch.
Giguere said documentation from Cornell University found that the hatch time from eggs to larvae is 12 to 24 hours. “We can only account for, at most, four hours after cooking,” he said. He said it wasn’t likely that eggs would survive the hot holding period, when the chicken sits under a warmer before it’s served.
“Walmart was right up to snuff,” he said. He said the store’s policy is to check the temperature of the food two hours after it goes out. At four hours, he said, any remaining food is thrown out.
Giguere said the chicken was cooked at 8:50 a.m., two hours before Tracy purchased it. A two-hour temperature check was performed at 10:50, the same time Tracy bought the chicken. Giguere said there was no temperature on the General Tso’s chicken because Tracy had bought the last of it.
Tracy said she found the maggots about two hours after buying the chicken. She posted a video to Facebook two hours and 10 minutes after getting it from the Walmart deli. Tracy ate some of the chicken, not looking closely at it, when she drove home, and said she’s afraid she may have eaten some pieces with maggots.
Giguere said there’s nothing else for the Department of Agriculture to investigate. “I can’t find an explanation for the maggots.”
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She is a liar who is trying to get something from nothing. Period. It was perfectly clear when it was reported that she was trying to get donations to go on a real vacation with her family. Guess what honey? You want a vacation? Get a job. Save money. Get to go on vacation. That may be too much for her to understand though.
ASK FOR DONATIONS TO GO TO K.F.C LOL
If she paid with a EBT Card then the taxpayers will get her share of the lawsuit since we had to buy it. LOL I like what you wrote…
Don’t believe you can use a EBT card for prepared food.
you can if its a cash card
Any hot, ready to eat food (rotisserie chickens, hot sandwiches, or this type of thing) can’t be purchased using the food stamp side of an EBT card.
ARE YOU NOT CONVINCED BY HER PRETEND EMO-FACE??
Behold…the results of inbreeding!
Who da thunk?
I THOUGHT SO,SO DID EVERYONE ELSE!
Can’t she (Tracy) be charge with distracted driving since she was driving and eating at the same time, by her own admission?
She should be charged with not only that but fraud, and trying to find ways to scam people into paying for her and her deadbeat husband. This woman only wants to have people supporting her she thinks she is entitled to payouts, vacations and other subsidies. If she is on Welfare its time to start making this scam artist get a job.
No vacation for you!
I hear Warren is pretty this time of year…
Is that where they send liars. If so Sheriff Ross and Husson boy should be going soon with some of the Police Department personal around.
Beardsley will never be held accountable. He works for a republican governor.
And no pay day from Walmart, LOL. Too bad Deena, just be grateful for all the protein they gave you.
Walmart may be up to snuff, but is it up to sniff?
I do wonder if they checked the gloves the employee was wearing at the time he or she packaged the chicken. What else was that employee handling with the same gloves and how often do they throw them away.
They gave Wal-Mart 2/3 days notice of an inspection. What would you do if that was your department.
Thank you BDN for posting this nice large picture of maggots at supper time.
Just a friendly reminder to make sure you get plenty of protein in your diet
Appetite suppressant.
https://www.facebook.com/deenatracy82 Nice to see shes in a nice OPEN RELATIONSHIP, those poor kids…
This is relevant how?
Her husband and a therapist……
watch the vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zy23pvkobU
yessss..so funny..wants a Florida honeymoon with open relationship..what a marooon lol
Then she took an angry, profanity-filled video with her phone and posted it on Facebook so her mother and friends could see for themselves.
She said she wanted more than a refund.
She said she isn’t sure if there’s anything she can sue over.
Tracy, 30, lives in Paris with her husband, Matthew, and two
daughters. She recently posted a request on the fundraising website
gofundme.com for $1,200 to take her family to Florida on vacation and to pay for propane while they’re away.
GET A JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How could there even be maggots if the food is hot? Before maggots are fruit flies and I highly doubt that a deli as up to date as walmart would have any sanitary issues. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zy23pvkobU
she also posted links to gofundme.com from her twitter asking for money for a new home.
This person is beyond ridiculous. If she was so “horrified” at the thought that she and her daughter may have eaten maggots, why didn’t she immediately go to the ER? From what I’ve read her priorities were to call her mother, make a video of the maggots, and call her lawyer.
If her chicken had maggots on it when she purchased it from Wal-Mart, shouldn’t there have been maggots on the rest of the chicken in that same batch? Seems to me that there should be several other “maggot victims” out there. Strange how nobody else has reported anything, huh?
I hope she files a lawsuit against Wal-Mart. It would be very entertaining to see her being laughed out of the court room.
It seems to me that the State lab should be able to determine “what” those maggots were eating before she found them. I believe that they would actually find DNA from whatever food source they had been feeding on. (I know….I watch too many crime shows). It they were from the chicken then she has a valid complaint. But………. they may not be either.
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Good idea ,except, of course, it’s too late now cause the maggots have been sitting in her fridge (gross) chowing down on chicken for a couple of days so I would imagine they’d be plugged full of Wal-Mart DNA by now. lol!
Whats more horrifying than buying cooked ‘chicken’ at Wal Mart and feeding it to your kids? I hope she gets what is coming to her.
She is the one that should have to worry about a lawsuit…against her!
LETS LOOK AT THE CREDIBILITY OF THE DEFENDANT :
“The shoppers who witnessed the rats said the Walmart manager would not let them file a complaint. Walmart has responded to the report via a statement sent to CBS 5 News:”
http://consumerist.com/2007/03/warning-rats-in-the-walmart.html
Article is from march 2007.
LOL
Aw, she’ll have to pay for her vacation a different way. Like, you know, actually working for it.
Oxford SO or Paris PD should investigate and charge this phony with fraud. Sort of like the clips one sees on the news about folks staging falls in the isle to sue the store. Same situation. Hang her out to dry!
First, the police don’t have the authority to charge anyone with a crime. Only the attorney general, district attorney, or grand jury can do that.
Second, Maine’s fraud statute does not cover this situation.
Obviously you know nothing about law enforcement or the criminal justice system.
Just for kicks, let’s say your house gets burglarized. A neighbor watches the bad guy break in, and calls the coppers.
Coppers get there and apprehend the bad guy in the house.
What do you suppose the coppers do….call the DA, AG or the GJ? No, they arrest the perp and CHARGE him with burglary.
The charging document is called a Probable Cause Affidavit, which the arresting officer completes at the time of booking.
Who ever told you that LEO’s do not have the authority to charge anyone with a crime is absolutely wrong.
It is you who obviously knows nothing about the system.
People are arrested on suspicion of committing a crime. The police write a report and send it to the district attorney, with a recommendation of possibe charges. The DA may decide no crime was committed, decide there is not enough evidence to win a conviction, may decide a different crime was committed, or may decide to forward the case to a grand jury.
A charge in a criminal case is a formal accusation in a court of a particular crime. Only the DA can file charges with the court. All the police can do is make a recommendation to the DA.
There is no such charge as “suspicion”.
And don’t tell me about the system.
I am a thirty year retired Detective Lt.
Next time, keep this in mind. The boys in blue stop you on the street. They arrest you for “suspicion” of possessing rape tools…..make sense?
So as a self-professed retired detective, you think everyone who is arrested is guilty?
You arrested people because you SUSPECTED they committed a particular crime. It is the court, not you, who decided whether a crime was committed, and whether the defendant committed it. Police officers are not officers of the court and have no say in whether a defendant will be charged and whether the defendant is guilty.
LOL
any white rice involved? Once I had leafminers in our spinach (homegrown). As well as we tried to pick out affected leaves, they were cooked and served along with rice and beans. After sorting all morning, in my mind, the rice became leaf miner larvae and even though all the food was cooked, the thought was too much for me. I didn’t finish this meal.
The way our lives are public these days. I would not be caught publicly sharing all this to the world. Glad to hear that Walmart comes out clean.
And the award for the most unconvincing story of the month goes to…..Deena Tracy!
What? She is not here to claim her prize? Did the Sun Journal even attempt to reach her for comment after this come out or did she run out of excuses?
That attorney she contacted must be either crying they can’t take on a big company, or laughing at the fee they are about to charge for listening to this.
Too bad Wal-Mart won’t kick her out of the store.
Maybe she should try Chick-fil-A.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
If they can prove scam, I hope they can jail her.
It would be easy to buy the same product from another Walmart a few days before purchasing this product from the Oxford Walmart. Just leave the first purchase out in the open for a few days and, quess what, maggots!! Hard to prove though, but I agree with you 100%. Again I say, too many people out to make a quick buck and expect the system to support them without earning it.
I think that if she were to sue, she would settle for a free bucket of chicken.
Well I just watched her video she made and i’m sure her ship will not sail with Walmart. She needs to find another avenue for her trip to Florida. Wonder how long she has been running this kind of scamming venture.
THIS WHOLE THING IS A STUPID JOKE! ARE YOU KIDDING ME? MAGGOTS AT WALMART? THIS WOMAN IS A COMPLETE JOKE AND I THINK IT IS FUNNY THAT SHE ACTUALLY THOUGHT SHE COULD WIN A STUPID CASE LIKE THIS! WHAT A JOKE! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zy23pvkobU
And if there’s maggots in that bucket why is she posing for a picture with it?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zy23pvkobU
How could she drive and eat the chicken with all that red sauce on it? What a mess. She ate 1/2 a bucket on the way home.
WHAT’S NEXT IS SHE GOING TO TRY AND SUE KFC? OR CHESTER’S CHICKEN? OR POPEYE’S? EVERY CHICKEN PLACE BETTER WATCH OUT CAUSE THIS WOMAN IS COMING AND SHE’S ON A TEAR LOOKING FOR SOME VACATION MONEY!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zy23pvkobU
It’s amazing to me how people can make themselves out to be so stupid but to be stupid in front of a whole state (if not nationally). lol. Guess she couldn’t get attention from anyone else so she needs it from the entire state of Maine. Whatta loser. I’d like to see her CHARGED with something, maybe electrical shock treatments would help? lol.
You are assuming she is pulling a scam. She might be. I know first hand this could easily happen.
But let’s get mad at the Gov. when he wants to stop crap like this!
I just found a typo in my newspaper, where do I go for the ‘money’?
To the Pingree Press.
lol, BDN.
I have no idea what really happened but i do have an opinion.. I think she is either mad at Wal Mart or she is just trying to get money out of them maybe even free food but she is after something..
I don’t really care as I don’t shop at Wal-Mart. Most of there stuff is from China. In my opinion they can be brought down a couple pegs. If they can bribe people in Mexico they can make a mistake on chicken.
Take a look in the stores you shop very few products are made in USA anymore.
Where are you buying all your American made goods?
No mistake was made. It is either negligence which I would not be surprised at. or a scam.
Bdn deleted my comment
I went to Walmart to buy some maggot flavored chicken, but they were all sold out.
Maybe she can ask for donations to have the maggots tested to determine where they came from. If they’re not a local variety of insect, then she might have a case.
If she waits long enough you WILL be able to use an EBT card for vacation travel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So this proves what…….well, at least she got her 15 minutes of fame!
If I had of been Walmart I would have made sure everything was n order before the inspector got there.
Assuming she is lying (I won’t say 100% she is although that does seem likely), what recourse does Wal-Mart have? How many people now have the image of maggoty chicken in their heads? I for one, will think of that when I see their General Tso’s from now on. So gross. Even when proven to be false, claims like that still stick even if just anecdotally.
Eating that greasy kraap from Walmart is punishment enough.
Where is CSI when we need them? Gil would have cut the maggots up and tested them. Case solved in an hour.
When you’re down to your last nickel in life, you play the ‘fraud’ and ‘lawsuit’ angle. Sometimes it works; most often it doesn’t. This little Juanita wanted to scare Wal-Mart into making her rich. Now, she’s got a scarlet letter branded on her chest.
Sixty-six comments and nobody was able to tie this in with the casino in Oxford yet? :)
I did on the last article. ;-)
The authorities didn’t find anything because between the time they investigated the incident, Walmart had plenty of time to go thru their deli to clean it up. I know one thing, it is making me think twice before I buy anything pre-cooked from teir stores…… Had the aurthorities who were contacted early enough, could have made an unanounced appearance at the store, to perhaps make a better investigation of the incident!
Health Inspectors DO make unannounced visits on a regular bais…it’s part of thier job, anywhere from 1 to 4 times a year, depending on the situation…..so this visit was just a formality to reassure the public….Wal-Mart is used to dealing with the low-end population…so they keep a tight ship all the time…..only incident that happened here was FRAUD
English as a 166th language…
What some people will do to get attention!
Hand ups are short time donations that help people when they are down. Hand outs are given to people who consider welfare a career choice.
Nobody is entitled to insurance and nobody is required to purchase the insurance that is offered. It’s tough to have just a high school diploma and get more than minimum wage in this Obama economy, affectionately known as the food stamp president.
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The Obama Economy — brought to you by Reagan’s “Trickle Down Economics” and the Bush-Cheney lovely wars that enriched their friends in major ways and their tax breaks for corporations who outsourced jobs overseas … Obama had nothing to do with it except try to fix it with a R Congress who wouldn’t vote for a good thing if it had green stamps attached. All the members of this Congress have tried to do is emulate Sen. Mitch McConnell — “I wouldn’t vote for anything that would help that man get re-elected!” Nope, not even if it would help the American people. Such a sad state of affairs!
What are you babbling about? Don’t you think you could stick to a topic JUST ONCE. No one wants to hear what your voices are saying
No problems found at the Oxford WalMart? How about their “public assistance” wages, lack of health care, and 100% turn over? How about their massive contribution to our $350 billion deficit with a communist nation? How about the 6 Walton heirs hoarding $93 billion, or 93,000 million, while their average employee struggles to survive on $13,600 a year? Nope, no problems at good old WalMart. I haven’t stepped foot in one in years and I encourage others to do the same. WalMart is good for the top 1%, good for China, and bad for everyone else.
Get a damn job!
While your witty comeback is a deep and thought provoking point to ponder, I’ll stick with the facts. Sorry if they leave a bad taste in your mouth. He are a couple more for you. In 1985 ,when famed commie hater Ronald Reagan was in office, our trade deficit with communist China was $6 million and our debt to them was zero. Today, our trade deficit is running in excess of $350 billion with those communists, and they have their finger up our butt for well over $1 trillion. They are going to take us over without firing a single shot. Think about that the next time you are kicking around WalMart trolling for more cheap Chinese crap.
Soupy thinks anyone who thinks different than he does is an unemployed bum. He trolls.
He probably gets lots of exercise jumping to conclusions, making assumptions, and shooting from the hip. He’ll find my aim is a little more accurate.
wow…with commentators like you who needs Wikipedia??
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Your Obamunist President and his advisers are supporters and admirers of China’s system. Perhaps you are just shooting your own feet off.
You need to get your facts straight.
http://newmediajournal.us/indx.php/item/4538
My Obamunist President? lol. You must be very fit, because you sure get a lot of exercise jumping to conclusions. How perceptive of you to be able to deduce my political persuasions based solely on a couple of comments. Tell me, is this learned behavior, or were you just born with the ability to label people with little to no information about them? I happen to be an independent. I believe voting Democrat or Republican is akin to bending over and saying ” thank you sir, may I have another”. They are both responsible for driving this country in the ditch. Also, please point out any “crooked” facts.
I’m sure Wally World doesnt miss you…
We spend 90% of our disposable income within a 5 mile radius of our home in the course of a year. With locally owned businesses. I am sure they would miss our money if we were to suddenly take it to WalMart. I believe that shopping at “Wally World” , as you so affectionately refer to them as, is akin to supporting a communist nation and communism in general. WalMart sends so much money to communist China every year that it is a closely guarded secret known only to the higher echelon in the corporation. Probably far too awkward for public consumption. Funding the building of a communist empire is liable to cut into sales, here in America.
Clearly $93 billion is not enough. Wouldn’t want to punish success. Didn’t the Waltons build the bridges and roads and the banking system that made such wealth redistribution possible?
If she wanted a big payday, she should have ‘found’ a pygmy rattlesnake in a plant in the garden department. (Too bad there aren’t any venomous snakes in Maine . . . )
http://consumerist.com/2007/02/walmart-no-comment-after-supercenter-snake-bites-seven-shoppers.html
There are Timber Rattlesnakes in Maine. Good luck finding one to plant at Wally World though. Haven’t seen one in years.
One morning when I was working, one of the guys from the produce department called me over to look at something. It was a scorpion. Caught it and kept it for several Weeks. A few years ago I caught a tarantula there too. That lasted about a year.
They came in on the fruit.
Eating General Tao chicken while driving ???? Sticky fingers, sticky steering wheel. Good God woman, couldn’t you wait until you got home. Hungry hungry hippo
For Pete’s sake, can we not have this image in our face every time we come to this site? Yes, it grabs attention, but not in a good way, and it is just plain gross and disgusting.
Maybe Wal Mart should sue her!
It seems to me like this chick is to lazy to get a job.. so she is most likely to lazy to clean her car! I bet that’s were the maggots came from! What a ridiculous way to try and scam a company for money! She should be ashamed of her self! She is setting an awful example for her children!
I bet WalMart is thanking there employees for doing an excellent job keeping up with the records and temps! Good job WalMart employees!
From first hand experience, the record keeping is a joke and the inspectors couldn’t find their own butts with both hands a map and a flashlight.
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Before you guys make fools of yourselves let me tell you a bit about walmart. I helped open three stores in three states and worked for them for twelve years. I worked in all the different departments in all the positions. I can tell you from working in the deli that the inspectors don’t have a clue. I complained a lot about the false record keeping. Even called the store manager in several times to prove to him that the records were all false. Still nothing was done.
I am not sure that this isn’t a scam, but I know first hand that this is a very easy possibility.
Have to agree on the recordkeeping. If its anything like my job (similar industry as the deli would be) its simply a book you fill out every X number of hours with the temps for the food. Often, this task is forgotten about nutil late in the day when someone goes “oh crap! I forgot to fill out the temp book!” at which point made up temps are filled in to the previous X number of missed slots in the log.
With two or three days notice and after publicity like this, its not like Walmart would go “Oh gee, lets just leave the greasy mess behind for the impending health inspectors to find”.
That said… the times don’t make sense for this to happen. I remember when I first was linked to the video saying to my wife that ‘I wonder if they were in the packaging or something, because I doubt they’d survive getting cooked.”
Go vegan!
Get a job you lazy wench!!! Stop scamming people & work for a vacation like most NORMAL people do. I don’t believe a single word of your pathetic story.
These don’t appear to be maggots, but appear to be recently-laid insect eggs. They could even be butterfly eggs. Many insects could be attracted to sweet food and lay their eggs on it. They would not have done so under the heat lamps at Walmart, but most likely did this because the food was left uncovered by the customer. She needs to learn to keep her food covered. The video I saw on TV did not show anything moving. Much ado about nothing. Does she have a lawyer lined up?
I knew it.
If thats the actual picture of her chicken up top, then those maggots and eggs where put on there after she had eaten some….otherwise they would be covered in sauce, they wouldnt be that nice clean color, they would be covered in sauce from the chicken that had been sat on top of them, and quite possible a little squashed!
I must say, she had me fooled at first when i saw this on facebook, but now reading the last couple of days articles, i think she is lying!
Only maggot I can see is the picture of the woman holding the receipt :)
She just trying to supplement her welfare. Anything beats working for a living.
What bothers me is that the BDN has kept this in a prominent spot on the website. WE get it guys. You don’t like Walmart. perhaps you can afford to pay more for food but I can’t right now.
Largely a myth. Do some actual price comparison.
Id like to know how those maggots got there, in the “middle of the chicken” after she had already eaten some, yet managed to not be covered in sauce. Looks a lot more like they were placed there !
She must have concocted this scam in the time it takes a sullen bum to shove half of a bucket of chicken in its mouth, which must be a short amount of time because it wasn’t well thought out.
She has friends patrolling some forums whenever it is brought up that there are reports saying that she had posted for donations for a family trip. saying that she asked for donations Months ago and canceled them so according to them money was not an issue.
Deena posted links to gofundme on her twitter on July 30th
and July 12th wanting donations saying “Just to let you in on the reasons we would just like a home of our own” “Thank you for looking at my page, I’m asking for help with the down payment for a home,”
So in addition to asking for handouts for a trip she is also asking for money for a home? Suddenly now a woman repeatedly asking for handouts finds a way to make money.
Her friends and family say she hasn’t contacted an attorney yet all news reports say she has. Her initial post of the video which is still on her face book said “Just bought this today at 10:53 am got home about 30 minutes later…” now all reports are saying that she stopped at the park to let her daughter play for a half hour and got home an hour and a half after buying the chicken.
Funny how she got the last few scoops of the chicken *which means other people purchased some too* and she is the only one with maggots, and how inspectors have found nothing wrong in the store, and that the only persons making these claims happens to be someone who not to long ago was asking for donations. Odd how hatch time from eggs to larvae is 12 to 24 hours according to Cornell University, so even if the associates cooked that chicken when the store first opened at 6am any eggs would not have hatched until 6pm and would have to have survived being under the heat lamps… something doesn’t add up.
Oh also does anyone else fined it odd that this woman finds these maggots so traumatizing that she cant eat for over a day yet is keeping them in her refrigerator?
How come there isn’t any sauce from the general tso’s chicken that was sitting on it while she was eating on the drive to the park? If that’s how far down she ate, and no sauce on them, looks like the eggs may have been laid after she got that far down. BTW, Did she ever get that funding she wanted for her trip to Florida and the propane she requested?