Trader Joe's recalls over 9M pounds of vegetable fried rice sold in 43 states due to glass contamination
FILE-A sign appears at the entrance of a Trader Joe's grocery store in Lafayette, California, October 17, 2025. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)
A massive nationwide recall has now expanded to include frozen vegetable fried rice products sold at Trader Joe's stores in 43 states.
Ajinomoto Foods North America Inc. announced a recall of 9,885,240 pounds of Trader Joe’s vegetable fried rice after small pieces of glass were found in the frozen meals.
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According to a Food and Drug Administration recall notice, the glass shards ranged from one to three cm long and 2 to 4 mm wide.
This latest frozen food recall notice is an extension of an initial recall announced on February 19, and expanded in early March. Almost 37 million pounds of ready-to-eat products were impacted in the recall, affecting over a dozen brands in addition to Trader Joe’s like Kroger and Tai Pei, FOX Business reported.
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Which states were the Trader Joe’s vegetable rice products sold?
Dig deeper:
Trader Joe's Vegetable Fried Rice has best-buy dates ranging from Feb. 28, 2026, to Nov. 19, 2026, which were sold in 43 states listed below:
- 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
- Wyoming
Food and Drug Administration officials have designated this recall as Class II, meaning 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," according to the agency’s website.
The Source: Information for this story was provided by a Food and Drug Administration recall notice and FOX Business. This story was reported from Washington, D.C.