ATLANTA -- Kellogg is trying to determine whether peanut paste in some of its sandwich crackers is contaminated as part of a salmonella outbreak in Ohio and other states.
The cereal company has asked stores to stop selling crackers sold under its Austin and Keebler brands.
Kellogg gets at least some of its paste from the Virginia-based Peanut Corporation of America, which has recalled 21 lots of peanut butter because of possible contamination. Some of that peanut butter was distributed by the Cleveland area's King Nut Companies, under the King Nut brand name.
Salmonella has sickened more than 430 people nationwide and may have contributed to five deaths. Ohio has reported 57 cases, including 14 people hospitalized.
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