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Recall · Class II2013-02-26Terminated

May contain small pieces of plastic.

The firm was notified of bread with traces of visible ink was discovered which later led to the discovery of plastic pen pieces.

Above, in the agency’s own words. The line before it is our plain-English summary — how we word these.

Issued by the US Food and Drug Administration, naming Kroger.

What the notice covered

Tender Twist Wheat Bread NET WT 20 OZ (1 LB 4 OZ) 566G and 22.5 oz (1 LB 6.5 OZ) 637 g plastic bags ***INGREDIENTS: UNBLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR***CONTAINS: WHEAT, SOY. DISTRIBUTED BY THE KROGER CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO 45202" Sold under the following brands: QFC Quality Food Centers & Fred Meyer

Quoted from the record as published. If a product is not described here, this notice does not tell us whether it was affected.

What Class II means

The FDA’s middle class: use of the product may cause temporary or medically reversible health consequences, and the probability of serious harm is remote.

This is the agency’s own definition of the class. We do not assign classes and we do not rank them against each other.

The record

Agency
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Reference number
F-1281-2013
Kind of action
Recall
Dated
2013-02-26
Terminated
2013-08-21
Status on the record
Terminated
We read it
2026-10-01

Regulates most packaged food, drugs and devices. Its recall records are published weekly in the Enforcement Report.

Products we matched to this notice

We have not matched this notice to any product in our database — usually because it named no barcode we hold. Products may still have been affected.

How we are treating it

This notice concerns the product line itself or how it was produced.

The government record

The FDA publishes this notice through its enforcement API, so the link below returns raw JSON rather than a readable page. It is the primary record and we cite it as such; everything above is our transcription of it.

https://api.fda.gov/food/enforcement.json?search=recall_number:"F-1281-2013"

To see it in the FDA’s own words, search the reference number F-1281-2013 in the Search the FDA Enforcement Report. The FDA publishes no direct link to an individual recall.

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