According to a consumer advocacy website with the on-the-nose address of IWasPoisoned.com, more than 3000 people have reported getting sick after eating General Mills Lucky Charms.
According to The Washington Post, the FDA has received over 100 reports this year about the specific cereal and is investigating. We don't know how widespread the issue is, but the reports date back as far as last year.
The FDA takes seriously any reports of possible adulteration of a food that may also cause illnesses or injury.
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General Mills takes the consumer concerns reported via a third-party website very seriously.
There have only been a handful of cases in which diseases have spread through cereals. In 2010 there were 28 million boxes of Froot Loops recalled due to elevated levels of a food packaging substance.
It is not clear if the FDA will recall Lucky Charms. NPR reported in December that the number of food-related recalls has dropped off during the Pandemic. There were only a quarter as many recalls in 2020 as there were in 2019.
It's difficult to make sense of these incidents. Lucky Charms have been reported to have devastating effects on the gastrointestinal systems of consumers. It's not clear whether all of these cases are related to eating the cereals.
The FDA is investigating whether Lucky Charms is making people sick.
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