ORIGINAL: Hotburn76
You can freeze and thaw all you want, the only thing it will change is quality/ taste. How do you think low end grocery stores get their meet? Frozen then they set it out and you buy unthawed. Most chicken is sold to stores frozen and then set out to thaw in the stores. Then we buy it and refreeze it.
Good point HOTBURN76. I work for a huge food distributor here in Columbus Ohio, and we get in "fresh" chicken" for a certain restaurant chain and it is frozen when we get it and is thawed by the time it is picke and shipped. Of course it is stored and picked in a 34 degree whse. I purchase this chicken myself and it is fine. better than i can go buy at any grocerie store. I see nothing wrong with refreezing meat as long as it has been thawed in the refrigerator. Handling is the most important part of any meat processing , weather it be cooking, thawing,or packaging. I woulkd bet BIGCOUNTRY ate something that somewhere down the line wasn't handled correctly. Remember, clean, sanitary, equipment, (knives, counter top, and any packaging material) and you should be OK 99% of the time.