Kellogg Bars, Oat Cereal Have Weedkiller Residue, Suit Says (1)

Kellogg Co.'s strawberry Nutrigrain bars and Cracklin’ Oat Bran Cereal are deceptively marketed as healthy when they contain traces of the weed-killer glyphosate, a new proposed class suit alleges.

The suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California is the latest to challenge the presence of glyphosate and other pesticides in foods.

Glyphosate is sprayed on oats and other grains as a drying agent before harvesting. It’s the active ingredient in Roundup, exposure to which caused a groundskeeper’s non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a blood cancer, a jury found earlier this year.

Kellogg’s told Bloomberg Law it doesn’t comment ...