The Pennsylvania-based company announced the recall after receiving consumer reports of plastic in product which presented a cutting or choking hazard.
Food recalls were up in the second quarter of 2016, in part because of powerful new testing methods and tighter regulations — an indication of a new normal rather than an outlying spike in the trend.
General Mills has again expanded its flour recall to include additional production dates after the CDC confirmed four more illnesses linked with consuming food containing raw flour contaminated with E. coli.