General Mills Recalling 1.8 Million Boxes of Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios
Check your boxes of Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios.
General Mills said Monday, October 5, 2015 that it is recalling an estimated 1.8 million boxes. According to a message from the president of General Mills:
This recall is necessary because an undeclared allergen – wheat – with potential adverse health effects may be present in the cereals we produced on several dates in Lodi, in July.
Our Lodi production facility lost rail service for a time and our gluten-free oat flour was being off-loaded from rail cars to trucks for delivery to our facility on the dates in question. In an isolated incident involving purely human error, wheat flour was inadvertently introduced into our gluten-free oat flour system at Lodi. That error resulted in an undeclared allergen – wheat – being present in products labeled as gluten free at levels above the FDA gluten-free standard.
This voluntary recall includes four days production of original (yellow box) Cheerios, and thirteen days of production of Honey Nut Cheerios at its Lodi, California facility with the following “BETTER IF USED BY” code dates and the plant code LD which indicates the product was produced at Lodi, California:
Honey Nut Cheerios | Honey Nut Cheerios | Honey Nut Cheerios | Yellow Box Cheerios |
12JUL2016LD 13JUL2016LD 14JUL2016LD 15JUL2016LD 16JUL2016LD | 17JUL2016LD 18JUL2016LD 20JUL2016LD 21JUL2016LD 22JUL2016LD | 23JUL2016LD 24JUL2016LD 25JUL2016LD | 14JUL2016LD 15JUL2016LD 16JUL2016LD 17JUL2016LD |
You can also find more information about the recall as stated in their news release.