Overview
- Ajinomoto, which filed Friday’s FDA notice adding 9.89 million pounds of Trader Joe’s Vegetable Fried Rice, now pegs the cumulative recall at roughly 36.9 to 37 million pounds.
- The action spans Trader Joe’s, Kroger, Tai Pei, Ling Ling and other labels, with products shipped to 43 states and some items also sold under club-store and private labels.
- Federal investigators say a vegetable ingredient, specifically carrots from a supplier, is the likely source of the glass contamination identified in the frozen meals.
- Regulators describe glass pieces about 1 to 3 centimeters long and 2 to 4 millimeters wide found in some packages, prompting warnings that consumers may still have affected bags at home.
- FSIS and FDA classify this as a Class II recall, which means serious harm is unlikely, and officials report no injuries to date while urging people to throw out or return recalled items for a refund.