Bread and Pizza Recalled in Mass Quantities by 3 Major Grocery Stores and a Popular Meal Prep Kit

If you’ve recently picked up focaccia or a pesto pizza kit at Trader Joe’s, Harris Teeter, or Meijer, it’s worth a trip to your freezer—especially if you live in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey, Texas, or Virginia. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a recall notice on several bread products, including a HelloFresh meal kit pizza, after the producer “discovered metal fragments in various bread products.”

The recall was initiated by Bakkavor, a Charlotte, NC-based food manufacturer, which traced the contamination to roasted tomatoes supplied by one of its ingredient vendors. It’s not clear how the metal became incorporated with the tomatoes, but that single sourcing issue rippled across multiple products and retail brands.

The affected items are all Class II recalls, meaning the FDA has determined that while the probability of serious harm is low, but there is the potential for injury—likely in this case from inadvertently biting into or ingesting a metal fragment.

What’s been recalled:

• Trader Joe’s Focaccia Bread, Roasted Tomato & Parmesan, 14 oz — UPC 0064 4358
• Harris Teeter (HT Traders) Roasted Tomato & Parmesan Focaccia, 13.75 oz — UPC 0 72036 95631 6
• Frederik’s by Meijer Slow-Roasted Tomato & Shredded Parmesan Cheese Focaccia, 13.75 oz — UPC 7 13733 88387 0
• Fresh & Simple Roasted Tomato & Parmesan Focaccia, 13.75 oz — UPC 8 50061 35318 4
• HelloFresh Basil Pesto and Mozzarella Pizza, 13.9 oz — UPC 8 57919 00785 5

The quantity of focaccia appears to total 35,055 units. The pizza was shipped in 23,459 cases with the unit quantity per case unreported.

The recall is reported to have originated on January 19, 2026 with the Class II risk level assigned this week. Check the lot numbers and use-by dates on the FDA notice to confirm whether your specific package is affected.

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