diff --git a/common/component/kafka/kafka_test.go b/common/component/kafka/kafka_test.go
index e4f258195f..decb7c0ea5 100644
--- a/common/component/kafka/kafka_test.go
+++ b/common/component/kafka/kafka_test.go
@@ -194,6 +194,42 @@ func TestDeserializeValue(t *testing.T) {
 		_, err := kInv.DeserializeValue(&msg, handlerConfig)
 		require.Error(t, err, "schema registry details not set")
 	})
+
+	t.Run("reproducing intermittent issue with union types due to codec state mutation", func(t *testing.T) {
+		// Arrange
+		testSchemaUnion := `["null", "long"]`
+
+		// In happy path, codec is initialized and NativeFromBinary is called first, which sets the states of the codec
+		codecCard1, err := goavro.NewCodecForStandardJSONFull(testSchemaUnion)
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+
+		datum1, _, err := codecCard1.NativeFromBinary([]byte{0x02, 0x06})
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+
+		// As expected, the datum is a long with value 3
+		require.Equal(t, int64(3), datum1.(map[string]any)["long"])
+
+		// Reproducing the error when NativeFromTextual is called before NativeFromBinary, which changes the states of the codec
+		codecCard2, err := goavro.NewCodecForStandardJSONFull(testSchemaUnion)
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+
+		// Trigger textual path that mutates states
+		_, _, err = codecCard2.NativeFromTextual([]byte("1"))
+
+		// Binary for union index 1 (long) with value 3: 0x02 0x06
+		datum, _, err := codecCard2.NativeFromBinary([]byte{0x02, 0x06})
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+
+		// Prior to bug fix, the datum would be returned as a {"null", 3} but should return '{"long":3}'!
+		require.Nil(t, datum.(map[string]any)["null"])
+		require.Equal(t, int64(3), datum.(map[string]any)["long"])
+
+		// As a result, next call to TextualFromNative would fail with "Cannot encode textual union: cannot encode textual null: expected: Go nil; received: int64"
+		act, err := codecCard2.TextualFromNative(nil, datum)
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		require.Equal(t, []byte("{\"long\":3}"), act)
+
+	})
 }
 
 func formatByteRecord(schemaID int, valueBytes []byte) []byte {