A US food retailer with over 500 stores across the country, Trader Joe’s has earned cult status for selling taste-bud-thrilling, local specialty foods on a huge scale—and for telling gripping stories about its brands in unusually clever, zeitgeisty ways.
But in the context of the US’s fairly porous food safety system, the chain’s embrace of peculiar tastes means recalls like the latest ones will occasionally happen.
It seems Trader Joe’s issued the recalls voluntarily, as most companies do when a food product is contaminated. The US government’s oversight system leaves a lot of food safety and quality assurance in the hands of private companies. The latter are incentivized to take measures regarding food safety concerns rather than waiting for the government to shut them down. Not only does this protect people’s health, but it also maintains consumer confidence and profitability.
However, the more globalized our food system becomes, the more difficult it gets to ensure its safety.
5 thoughts on “Trader Joe’s Is Recalling Popular Food Items—Make Sure You Don’t Eat Them”
I’m not able to shop at Trader Joe’s. The nearest location is an hour drive time. I absolutely loved it when I lived in California, Florida is a little challenging even for the nostalgia value💕
However, I am curious about any updates on the Items mentioned in this article. The latest recalls were almost a year ago. Any idea of the results from those recalls? Have substitutions been offered?
Although many have started following simple recipes for everyday dishes, there are many fans of Trader Joe’s that find their assortment of food, produce and seafood without comparing.
The difference is when aware of the problem, Trader Joe , takes that merchandise off the market while the food stores in USA are going to sell the remain stock of it still in store and never advises the clients of it’s dangerous consequences. TJ does it the way it is done in Europe!!!
Good reason to Not shop there!
Our problem is the jumbo eggs. It is at least 5 weeks that all the jumbo eggs (which we prefer) have had double yolks increasing the cholesterol greatly) I can remove 1 yolk which is a nusence and a great waste.
We are now paying a very high price for this luxury and prefer buying from Trader Joe, as far as I know in our area there is only 1 other store that caries jumbo and prefer Trader Joe. We are wasting a lot of product and money.
The eggs can be candeled or looked at in some way to avoid this problem (a very old way) I assume they’re is new technology today.
Would appreciate the company investigate my problems double yolks add a lot of cholesterol.
Trader Joe’s appears to be repeatedly shooting itself in the foot. It also appears that the “foreign matter” found in the food is very specific and even intentionally placed there. It reminds me of the wave of food poisoning that swept through Chipotle a few years back. And of course, of the very worst case scenario, the 1982 Tylenol poisonings in Illinois. People need to stop buying prepackaged ANYTHING.