GENESEE COUNTY (WWJ/AP) - Lucky Charms, the cereal known for its colorful marshmallows and crunchy toasted oat shapes, is suspected of causing nausea, diarrhea and vomiting in four people in the Flint area, health officials reported.
According to the Associated Press, Kayleigh Blaney, deputy director of the Genesee County Health Department, alerted the Board of Health to the reported illness on Wednesday after several Michiganders claimed to have fallen ill after eating the popular breakfast food.
Blaney said samples were collected and are currently pending test results from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services..
“I think the thing that we’re working on and watching the most right now is all of the illness reports associated with eating Lucky Charms ...,” Blaney said. “We’re just taking the information we can get and forwarding it to the state.”
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The cases come after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration launched an investigation into over 100 illnesses blamed on the popular cereal made by the Minneapolis-based company, General Mills Inc.
So far, none of the people who fell sick have needed to be hospitalized although reports claim the illnesses have caused gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, diarrhea and vomiting.
General Mills said to the Associated Press last week that they are taking the reports very seriously — the company has already conducted its own investigation and so far cannot find evidence of consumer illness related to their product.
The AP reports that General Mills is encouraging all consumers share their concerns directly with them.
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