By admin What’s the most remarkable thing about the not-food-in-your-food recall of frozen Pillsbury Bread Roll dough that might have glass: that it involved 735,840 rolls or that the public didn’t learn about the June recall until this week?
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For your discussion and decision information, here’s more on the recall by Pillsbury parent company General Mills.
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What Pillsbury products are recalled, and how is Walmart involved?
Two kinds of frozen Pillsbury Bread Rolls were recalled.
The two lots of Pillsbury Bread Rolls Hard Roll Dough are lot Nos. 11JUN6JL and 12JUN6JL with best by dates of Oct. 12 and 13, 2026, respectively. This covers 544,400 rolls.
There’s only one lot, 12JUN6JL, of Pillsbury Bread Rolls Kaiser Roll Dough recalled. This covers 181,440 rolls.
A statement by General Mills said the “two frozen dough products were baked onsite and sold exclusively at Walmart in-store bakeries in the United States. This voluntary recall is limited in scope, highly contained and all potential impacted product has been removed.”
(Almost all food and product recalls are voluntarily made by the manufacturer or the retailre. Rarely does the FDA, USDA or U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission order a recall.)
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Recalled breads went to distributors in Florida, Missouri, California, South Carolina, Washington, Texas, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia and Wyoming.
If you have a recalled product, throw it away or return it to the store for a full refund. If you have more questions about this recall, call General Mills at 763-764-7600.
Why are you just hearing about this now?
According to the FDA Enforcement Report, General Mills issued this recall on June 19, but issued no press release. Under “Initial Firm Notification of Consignee or Public,” the alert reads just “E-mail.”
The daily email with FDA Enforcement Report updates hit media mailboxes on Tuesday. This recall was included because the FDA had classified it as a Class II recall, meaning “use of or exposure to a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.”
General Mills statement didn’t address how the glass got into some of the dough, what facility was used, or why no press release was issued.
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