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Heads Up: There's a Trader Joe's Salad Recall

By Naomi Tomky, provided by

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People who purchased Trader Joe’s salad in certain states are being advised to throw away or return the packaged product this week. The Crunchy Slaw with Chicken, Crispy Noodles & Peanut Dressing maybe came out a little to crunchy in versions sent to Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah: it may contain hard plastics, the company announced on its website on Thursday.

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While salad is a common product in the food safety recall world, that generally tends to be due to the high rates of foodborne pathogens with the potential to make customers sick. But any packaged food can fall victim to manufacturing line mishaps, as seems to be the case in this incident.

By Naomi Tomky