Parents advised to return recalled Similac products
GIS - Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 at 5:06 PM
Thursday, September 23 – The Environmental Health Division of the Ministry of Health and Social Development is advising all parents or guardians to return any of the recalled Similac products they have purchased since these items may be contaminated with beetle larvae.
Acting Deputy Chief Environmental Health Officer, Mrs. Yolanda Penn stated, “The Environmental Health Division has contacted all major distributors in the Territory, namely Rite Way Food Markets, One Mart Superstore, Bobby’s Marketplace and Supa Valu regarding the Similac recall.”
Mrs. Penn said, “While Supa Value does not carry Similac, Rite Way, One Mart Superstore and Bobby’s Marketplace have affirmed that the recalled product has been pulled from their shelves.”
According to a statement released by Abbott Nutrition, manufacturers of Similac, the cans involved in the recall were produced in a manufacturing plant in Sturgis, Michigan and were found during an internal audit. The following lot numbers for 8-ounce, 12.4-ounce and 12.9-ounce cans of Similac powder are involved in the recall:
# 87932T20
# 88117T26
# 78208T2
# 88136T20
# 91433t20
# 800-986-8550
# 800-545-5216
# 800-515-7677
# 800-986-8800
# 847-937-6100
# (847) 935-8865
# (847)935-3456
# 66128RB6
# 61251 RB6
# 61347RB
# 84314 RB
# 85454 T2
# 86580 T20
# 88137T20
# 90372T20
The Acting Deputy Chief Environmental Health Officer stated, “The Environmental Health Division will continue surveillance of these operators to ensure that the recalled product remains off of the store shelves.”
For more information on the Similac product recall, please contact the Environmental Health Division at 468-5110 or visit www.similac.com/recall/lookup.
The Environmental Health Division of the Ministry of Health and Social Development is responsible for the management of food hygiene, water quality and vector control programs as well as port health.
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Everything that comes out On the market people run to the stores & purchase, back then there were no Simlac, Gerber etc, etc, we got corn & flour pop, porridge & we grow up healthy & happy & rarely SICK. Children tend to get sick be/c PARENTS don’t spend time PREPARING HOME GROWN COOK FOOD/VEGETABLES, & give their children FRUITS. When u go to the Daycares, 95% of the children foods r processed/can foods, even to the snacks, cheetos, sweet biscuits etc, etc, & too much CANDIES. The nutritional diet for children in the BVI is very POOR.
Now, where Enviromental Health is concerned, I’ve been to restaurants & they need to shut sum of them down, I could name a few but mostly the 1 on mainstreet, always have roach & rats in that place in addition in there looks like a disco be/c in there is so dark. Insects & rodents r pests that r common but their r measures in place to eradicate them but at the end of the day it boils down to POLITICS & WHERE u FROM. The betterment of peoples stomachs r not important & or maintaining a clean establishment, what matters is MONEY they r making or loosing.
It is bad enough that parents have already given their children this milk. Now the problem is that parents are being told that they will not be given any cash refunds for the milk and are asked to get something else from the store. The problem is that they don’t need something else. They need milk for their babies and it is unfair to tell the parents that they cannot get the money so they could buy alternative milk of their choice for their babies. A package of 3 of this milk at Cash and Carry cost about $46.00.
every effing thing man making nowadays are desire to kill wa who the hell would put bettle larva n something a newborn would have the use hmm ppl is nt good sa i guess them was rite anything for money mission GOD BLESS N HELP US!!
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