Boston (HealthKnowItAll) - The FDA have sent a letter to General Mills the maker of Cheerios cereal because of false information on their label.

The label on the boxes of cheerios cereal says that the food can reduce high levels of cholesterol, and reduce risk of heart attacks in people who eat it.

According to the FDA, the company has up until May 15 to rectify the label of cheerios boxes, or face court injunction.

They insist that besides the change to the label of the cereal boxes, there is nothing wrong with the actual product.

“We certainly don’t have any issues with the safety of Cheerios,” Stephen Sundlof, director of the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, said in an interview today. “We just believe that the labeling on this particular product has gone beyond what the science supports.”

Cheerios came onto the US market back in 1941, and since then have been a fixture in the cupboards of millions of American households.