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Another Trader Joe’s Recall Warning Today~Fully Cooked Falafels!

amyb — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 21:16:57 GMT

Potential Foreign Material (Rocks) In Fully Cooked Falafels

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Kachina624 — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 21:28:13 GMT

How in the heck do ROCKS get into cookies unless it's sabatoge?

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Trinity11 — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 21:35:36 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
How in the heck do ROCKS get into cookies unless it's sabatoge?

They are made with beans and chickpeas and they are not cookies @Kachina624 .

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Mindy D — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 21:52:56 GMT

This makes the recall of four products with no FDA involvement. Recalls are usually voluntary but companies usually use the FDA to disseminate the information. TJ's used the FDA last month for their frozen fruit recalls. This is strange.

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Kachina624 — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 21:42:43 GMT

@Trinity11 wrote:
@Kachina624 wrote:
How in the heck do ROCKS get into cookies unless it's sabatoge?
They are made with beans and chickpeas and they are not cookies @Kachina624 .

@Trinity11. Last week's recalls were cookies. These look like baked goods of some type.

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Trinity11 — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 21:45:10 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:

@Trinity11 wrote:
@Kachina624 wrote:
How in the heck do ROCKS get into cookies unless it's sabatoge?
They are made with beans and chickpeas and they are not cookies @Kachina624 .
@Trinity11. Last week's recalls were cookies. These look like baked goods of some type.

Yes, I agree, they do!

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spumoni99 — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 22:02:51 GMT

Probably stones in with the chickpeas....that would be bad to bite down on a rock!

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shoekitty — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 00:00:23 GMT

The rocks came in probably with the beans. That's why when I get beans I rinse and sort them for rocks and bad beans. I have seen a few rocks , they are tiny pebbles, over the years. Not many but I have got them. The sorting machine at plant, and or th human sorter wasn't doing the job. They usually run the beans through a couple times to catch rocks

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ValuSkr — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 00:25:54 GMT

I've never had falafels but think I would like them, having just looked them up. I'll try some of TJ's - once they get the rocks out of their system.

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katie1859 — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 01:55:08 GMT

Seems to me that TRADER JOES has a lot of recalls [ lately-

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JoyFilled Warrior — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 13:25:02 GMT

Hi @amyb

Thanks for this heads up

I eat a huge amt of dishes using various beans, many from dry, some from cans.

I, like @shoekitty carefully pick over my dry beans before cooking.

Those rocks, that do indeed sneak in, can raise expensive havoc, esp on a mouth full of teeth, expensive filings, Root Canals & Crowns, let alone, trying to work their way thru the Digestive System!

I can see, esp see some machine, or even people, missing rocks in their beans. Does happen.

Eat, & chew gingerly & carefully.

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Trailrun23 — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 18:28:59 GMT

Seems like TJoe's is having quite a bit of things recalled. I don't shop there much anyway, but I think I will just stop going there now. They never seem to have much I am interested in.