Trader Joe’s Recalls 9 Million Pounds Of Vegetable Fried Rice

Trader Joe’s locations in Michigan are recalling more than 9,000,000 pounds of Trader Joe’s vegetable fried rice after small pieces of glass were found in the product.

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a recall for Ajinomoto Foods North America, saying the foreign objects are glass pieces ranging from 1 to 3 cm long and 2 to 4 mm wide.

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No information has been released yet as to how this may have happened, but the recall has affected nearly 10,000,000 pounds of their frozen products.

The products affected have a Best-By date that ranges from February 28, 2026 to November 19, 2026 and were sold in Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

The FDA has listed this as a Class II recall, which they define as:

A situation in which use of or exposure to a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.