Consumers shouldn’t eat any Kellogg’s Honey Smacks cereal regardless of package size or best-by date, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevent recommends. People who recently became ill with Salmonella report eating Kellogg’s Honey Smacks cereal that they had in their homes.
Thirty more ill people from 19 states were added to this outbreak since the last update on July 12. A total of 130 people infected with the outbreak strain of Mbandaka have been reported from 36 states. Thirty-four people have been hospitalized. No deaths have been reported.
The Kellogg Co. recalled Honey Smacks cereal on June 14.
Check your home for the cereal and throw it away or return it to the place of purchase for a refund. Even if some of the cereal has been eaten and no one got sick, throw the rest of it away or return it for a refund.
If you store cereal that looks like Kellogg’s Honey Smacks in a container without the packaging and doesn’t remember the brand or type, throw it away. Kellogg’s Honey Smacks is a sweetened puffed wheat cereal. Thoroughly wash the container with warm, soapy water before using it again, to remove harmful germs that could contaminate other food.
The CDC, public health and regulatory officials in several states, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are investigating the multistate outbreak.
Epidemiologic and laboratory evidence indicates that Kellogg’s Honey Smacks cereal is the likely source of this outbreak. The investigation is ongoing.
