Second wipe-maker issues recall after bacteria detected
20.09.11
Specialist Disposables International Inc., or PDI, of Orangeburg, N.Y., has voluntarily recalled all lots of five manifold kinds of packages of non-sterile alcohol prep pads because of what a corporation spokeswoman called "very low levels" of detection of Bacillus cereus bacteria.
That's the same structure that has triggered massive global recalls, a plant sequester-down and at least eight lawsuits against the Triad Group and H&P Industries of Hartland, Wis. The lawsuits request that contaminated alcohol prep products led to dangerous infections in people using the products for medical take responsibility for.
The recall announced on Sept. 16 came after federal Comestibles and Drug Administration inspectors visited the plant and tests showed the comportment of Bacillus cereus, said Melanie Liebowitz, PDI's iniquity president of regulatory compliance. But she stressed that the levels were low enough that the products remained well within allowed specifications and that the remembering was initiated only after extensive discussion with FDA officials.
Source: msnbc.com