The Food and Drug Administration is trying into claims that Lucky Charms cereal is making individuals sick. However, cereal maker General Mills has stated that it hasn’t discovered any clear hyperlink between its product and sickness.

Over the weekend, the FDA confirmed that it has acquired over 100 complaints of sickness linked to Lucky Charms to this point this yr. Elsewhere, a shopper well being web site (iwaspoisoned.com) has purportedly collected hundreds extra experiences of sickness. On the web site, individuals have reported signs like nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdomen ache after consuming Lucky Charms. These claims first began to get media attention greater than every week in the past.

“The FDA takes seriously any reports of possible adulteration of a food that may also cause illnesses or injury,” the company said in a press release, in response to the Associated Press.

Notably, whereas the self-reported claims made on the web site are reviewed, they’re not topic to exterior verification. The AP experiences that General Mills has performed its personal investigation and that it has did not discover a conclusive connection between the cereal and sickness. The firm has stated that it encourages prospects who consider they have been sickened by the cereal to succeed in out immediately.

Reported outbreaks of foodborne sickness from cereals tend to be uncommon, because the baking course of kills off many germs. But there could be contamination afterward because the merchandise undergo glazing or packaging. And since individuals often don’t prepare dinner their cereal earlier than consuming it, they are often then uncovered to any lingering pathogens. In 2018, at the least 100 individuals have been sickened by Salmonella micro organism present in a number of Kellogg’s Honey Smacks, which led to a wide-scale recall. Multiple salmonella outbreaks have been additionally as soon as traced again to the identical cereal model, Malt-O-Meal—and certainly the identical manufacturing plant—in 1998 and 2008.