Nearly 10 million pounds of Trader Joe's products are being pulled from shelves as part of an ongoing recall of frozen foods.
Ajinomoto Foods North America Inc. said in a notice posted by the Food and Drug Administration that over 400,000 cases, or about 9.8 million pounds, of Trader Joe's Vegetable Fried Rice are being recalled due to the presence of "foreign objects."
The notice said that the products were being pulled due to "glass varying in size from 1-3cm long and 2-4mm wide."
The vegetable fried rice packages were listed in a March 3 news release from Trader Joe's as being included in the recall. Other products mentioned by Trader Joe's included its Chicken Fried Rice, Japanese Style Fried Rice and Chicken Shu Mai.
The Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) said in a March 3 announcement that carrots were "the likely source of the glass contamination" after it received multiple complaints of glass being present in the packages.
