“While the FDA did not identify specific concerns with the food, we take this situation very seriously,” Kris Charles, a spokeswoman for Battle Creek, Michigan-based Kellogg, said in an e-mail. “We have undertaken a number of aggressive actions to address their concerns including comprehensive cleaning and extensive testing.”

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2. A Kellogg Co. (K) cookie plant in Augusta, Georgia,
was found to have a “persistent strain” of listeria
during a February inspection, including on food-
contact surfaces, according to a warning letter
from U.S. regulators.
The Food and Drug Administration letter, dated
June 7, was sent less than two years after a
Kellogg Eggo waffle plant in the same state was
shut for similar reasons.

3. The inspection found flies and pools of water,
the FDA said. The letter from District Director
John Gridley didn’t say that any products were
tainted with listeria, yet said they were
“adulterated” and “may have become
contaminated with filth.” The Augusta plant
makes Keebler and Famous Amos cookies, and
is one of five cookie bakeries Kellogg operates in
North America.

4. “While the FDA did not identify specific concerns
with the food, we take this situation very
seriously,” Kris Charles, a spokeswoman for
Battle Creek, Michigan-based Kellogg, said in an
e-mail. “We have undertaken a number of
aggressive actions to address their concerns
including comprehensive cleaning and extensive
testing.”
Kellogg’s response didn’t include dates for
taking action at the plant, the FDA said. The
regulator gave Kellogg 15 days to outline specific
remedies to avoid injunction or product seizure.

5. Eggo Production
Kellogg’s cookies are baked at a temperature high
enough to kill any listeria present, according to
Robert Gravani, a food science professor at Cornell
University in Ithaca, New York. The lack of an FDA
product recall suggests that listeria was not found
in the cookies, he said. FDA spokeswoman Tamara
Ward declined to comment on a potential recall.
Listeria is a bacterium found in prepared foods
and soil that can cause a serious infection in
humans called listeriosis. It is particularly harmful
to pregnant women, the young, the elderly, and
people with weak immune systems, according to
the FDA’s website.

6. Kellogg, the largest U.S. maker of breakfast
cereals, fell 45 cents to $54.96 at 4 p.m. in New
York Stock Exchange composite trading. The
shares have gained 7.6 percent this year.
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The FDA in January 2010 ordered Kellogg to
improve sanitation controls at the different
Georgia plant after Eggo buttermilk waffles
were found contaminated with listeria bacteria.

7. That, along with flooding and equipment changes
at another waffle factory in 2009, slowed
production for months and caused Eggo’s
market share to drop.
Kellogg in June 2010 voluntarily recalled about
28 million boxes of cereal including Froot Loops
and Honey Smacks, citing unusual taste and
odor coming from the liner of packages. The
recalled boxes were made at an Omaha,
Nebraska, facility. North American cereal sales
dropped 5 percent in 2010, partly because of the
recall.