Pillsbury Bread Roll Dough Recalled as FDA Outlines Glass Contamination Risk

Concerns that certain Pillsbury-brand bread products may contain glass led General Mills to initiate a voluntary withdrawal.

Juliette Fairley

Published: 7/16/2026, 5:06:30 PM EDT

Pillsbury Bread Roll Dough Recalled as FDA Outlines Glass Contamination Risk — The front entrance of the Pillsbury plant in Geneva, Ill., on Feb. 22, 2002. (Tim Boyle/Getty Images)

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) assigned its second-highest risk alert to 4,340 cases of bread roll dough sold in 19 states due to the potential presence of foreign material.

Concerns that certain Pillsbury-brand bread products may contain glass led General Mills to initiate the voluntary withdrawal, according to an enforcement report issued on July 13.

The recall and FDA classification apply to 3,080 cases of Pillsbury Bread Rolls ‘Hard Roll Dough’ that contain 180 units of 2.25 ounce canisters, and 1,260 cases of Pillsbury Bread Rolls ‘Kaiser Roll Dough,’ which contain 144 units of 2.5 ounce canisters.

The bread product recall was originally announced on June 19.

Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming were all named as distribution locations.

General Mills company management did not respond to requests for comment by the time of publication.

The FDA said that for Pillsbury Bread Rolls ‘Hard Roll Dough,’ the package UPC is 721582-13283 4 and the case UPC is 107-21582-13283-1. For Pillsbury Bread Rolls ‘Kaiser Roll Dough,’ the package UPC is 7 21582-13288 9, while the case UPC is 107-21582-13288-6.

The Class II designated recall event involved in the recall above is the federal government’s second-highest risk alert level, which is described by the FDA as a situation whereby exposure to the product “may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences.”

A Class I event, in contrast, is the FDA’s highest-level risk alert, and is described as “a situation in which there is a reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.” Meanwhile, a Class III event involves products that violate regulations but are unlikely to cause health problems, such as minor labeling errors.

Food Recalls On The Rise

A Trace One study found that U.S. food recalls have increased by 15 percent in the last five years.

Foreign object contamination accounted for 11.6 percent of all recalls; undeclared allergens accounted for nearly 40 percent; bacterial contamination accounted for 21.1 percent; and lead contamination accounted for 1.7 percent.

The level of potential contamination by foreign objects is alarming to many professionals in the food industry, including food industry consultant Bryan Quoc Le.

“Lead and foreign objects are easier to detect using fairly basic chemical, bulk material filtration, and X-ray diagnostics,” Quoc Le told NTD. “These systems are also less expensive to implement. Lead contamination is also a very serious issue that is often detected further up the ingredient supply chain, where contamination occurs at the point of harvesting or processing of ingredients.”