(KPTV/Gray News) - A family has filed a nearly $1 million lawsuit against an Oregon school district after pretzels seasoned with crushed oven cleaner were served to more than 50 middle school students last year.

The lawsuit, filed Sept. 9, centers on an incident that took place at Fowler Middle School on Oct. 20, 2025, when about 37 pretzels coated with crushed Alto-Sham concentrated oven cleaner - a caustic industrial chemical containing sodium hydroxide - were served during sixth-grade lunch.

More than 50 students ate all or part of the tainted pretzels, according to Tigard-Tualatin School District records.