30 tons of Trader Joe’s Chicken Soup Dumplings recalled for possible contamination

The maker of Trader Joe’s frozen Steamed Chicken Soup Dumplings has recalled the product because it “may be contaminated with foreign materials, specifically hard plastic from a permanent marker pen.” On your next Trader Joe’s run, you can skip the steamed chicken soup dumplings. More than 61,000 pounds of the grocer’s frozen Steamed Chicken Soup Dumplings have been recalled this week because of a possible extra ingredient: bits of plastic from someone’s pen. On March 2, Beaumont-based CJ Foods Manufacturing Beaumont Corp. recalled the product, stating it “may be contaminated with foreign materials, specifically hard plastic from a permanent marker pen.” The dumplings in question were made on Dec. 7, 2023, and are packaged in 6-ounce boxes with plastic trays containing six dumplings. The announcement comes just one month after Trader Joe’s and other grocers pulled products containing cotija cheese made by Rizo-López Foods in response to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration recall of dairy items that were possibly contaminated with listeria.