The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday linked a salmonella-ridden factory in Illinois to an outbreak of illness this summer in people who ate Kellogg Co. cereal made at that plant.
An FDA letter dated July 26 linked the outbreak on Friday, saying an inspection found “serious violations” at the factory, owned by Wisconsin-based Kerry, Inc. The plant manufactured Kellogg’s Honey Smacks cereal, which in June was tied to a salmonella outbreak that sickened 135 people in 36 states. Kellogg recalled more than 11 million...