PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Officials at a middle school in the Portland, Oregon, suburb of Tigard have confirmed that students were served pretzels with oven cleaner sprinkled on them earlier this week.
In an email sent out to families of Fowler Middle School, officials said that the oven cleaner used was in granular form and “mistakenly applied” to the pretzels.
“Understandably, we’ve heard a lot of concern around Monday’s food-contamination accident, in which an oven cleaner in granular form was mistakenly applied to pretzels,” the email read. “We are sorry this happened. All of us at Fowler and across the District are dedicated to the well-being of our students, and when something like this occurs, it disrupts the trust that we work so hard to build.”…