Freshly ground chicken or turkey will have a light pink hue and virtually no smell. If you read the small print on many of the packs (UK) they may say 'an odour may be detectable - this is normal'. I said I was going to cook them all nice and pretty and give them to the manager at Sams Club. I buy chicken, with the "best before" date being like 4-5 days ahead of today. I just bought a big pack of chicken breasts from Muscle Food and they stank of eggs when I opened them, despite being vacuum sealed. Now I'm really ANGRY, I tell the wife and say they're bad but I'm going to cook them anyhow, she says, "why, if they're bad ditch'em". though, its common for some to remain, but you should have to put your nose to it to smell it. I got a pack of sliced chicken from Costco (not the rotisserie meat, some random brand sliced for sandwiches) and upon opening the package was hit with a really strong smell. If you don’t, find the wrapping that shows the price of the chicken. You guessed it: that gas smells like sulfur. Rotten eggs and chicken both give off a sulfur smell when they go bad. rinse it. take it out of the package. Pre-packed chicken has had some surface treatment (dipped in a VERY mild antibacterial) to reduce bacterial contamination caused at the processing plant. Sulp hur! Then take the remaining chicken, go back to Costco’s customer service desk, and explain why the chicken is unacceptable to you. My husband and I tasted the chicken and it seemed perfectly fine. When I emailed to complain they told me that the gas they pump into the package to keep the chicken fresh smells of sulphur and that the smell should disappear if … and allow it to air dry (10-15 minutes) the smell should go away after this. Is this a gas in the package to preserve the beef? When raw chicken smells like sulfur, the culprit is usually the bacteria called Salmonella enterica, best known for causing enterocolitis in humans. As soon as I slit the package I smelled a nasty, nasty sulfur smell, sort of like rotten eggs. But not of off or rotten meat, but more like hard-boiled eggs. I did this multiple times from different stores, all of them had a faint egg fart smell. Anyway, I looked it up on the internet and a gas is released from chicken when it has become ridden with salmonella. This bacteria affects eggs and chicken products, making them release a gas that smells like sulfur. The beef looks perfect and dates are good but when the seal of the packaging was broken a strong sulfur smell came out and dissipated after a few seconds. This smell is associated with spoilage caused by strains of dangerous bacteria. I immediately was going to throw it out (ouch $35 chunk of meat) and call Costco. Low-temperature storage and poor packaging practices are usually responsible for the overgrowth of these dangerous bacterium that may lead to foodborne illness. Is the meat edible. Something about blood hitting air. 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