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There are over 3,000 complaints of nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting after consuming Lucky Charms. Customers have posted on iwaspoisned.com, the food safety website, with complaints from customers. General Mills Inc., a Minneapolis-based company, makes Lucky Charms, Cheerios, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Cocoa Puffs, and so much more.
The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) is trying to discover what is making customers sick. Customers are experiencing gastrointestinal issues. General Mills and the FDA are unable to find an issue for Lucky Charms to be recalled. General Mills has always encouraged their customers to come forth with complaints with their cereals.
General Mills has told the AP they have not found any links between the sickness and the Lucky Charms. These reports are coming from customers from in Indiana, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and other states.
The creator of iwaspoisned.com, Patrick Quade, reported to The Wall Street Journal that there have been 3,000 posts for Lucky Charms. Most of the reports have been in these last couple of weeks alone.
Symptoms began 30 minutes to a few hours after consuming the cereal. The FDA rarely has gotten complaints about Lucky Charms since 2004 with 41 reports and only three reports in the last year.
Kids are getting sick and missing school from vomiting and diarrhea after consuming the cereal. There was a kid in North Dakota who was experiencing a temperature of 102.7, nausea, vomiting, chills, and stomach pains. A parent from Georgia is taking their unopened boxes back to the store. A lot of customers thought that they were having a stomach bug or the flu until they consumed more cereal than they realized. All ages are experiencing the sickness.
The more cereal consumed the more the symptoms increase. General Mills has not had a recall since 2015, when 1.8 million boxes of their gluten-free Cheerios were recalled, due to the cereal containing wheat.
The Lucky Charms cereal was first made in 1964 by John Holahan. Since its creation it has not yet been recalled. Customers have had some complaints in the past but nothing like this, where there are so many customers getting ill from consuming the cereal known to be “Magically delicious”.
By: Kailynn Bedard
Sources:
iwaspoisoned.com: Lucky Charms Food Poisoning
Abc 11: FDA Investigating Lucky Charms after customers complained of illness after eating it; By Dee-Ann Durbin
Today: FDA is looking into reports of Lucky Charms making people sick; By
The Hill: FDA investigating Lucky Charms amid reports of illness; By Joseph Choi
Reuters: General Mills recalls 1.8 million boxes of gluten-free Cheerios; By Anjali Athavaley, Ramkumar Iyer
General Mils: The History of Lucky Charms
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