From Cayman Islands Department of Environmental Health

The Department of Environmental Health (DEH) is advising the public that an alert has been issued by the US Food and Drug Administration concerning the recall of products containing organic garlic powder sold by Frontier Co-Op, USA because the products have the potential to be contaminated with the Salmonella bacterium. The company has stopped all distribution of these products and has issued a voluntary recall of its products.

Consumption of products containing Salmonella can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. In rare circumstances, infection with Salmonella can result in the organism getting into the bloodstream and producing more severe illnesses such as arterial infections, endocarditic and arthritis.

Enclosed is a list of products containing organic garlic powder.

The DEH and FDA recommends that consumers avoid eating these products and should either throw them away or return them to the point of purchase.

For further information, contact the DEH at 949-6696.

To view all the images of the recalled products go to: http://www.frontiercoop.com/recall/

From Frontier Co-op

Voluntary Class 1 Recall Due to Possible Health Risk from Organic Garlic Powder

Frontier Co-op is committed to quality and to ensuring our customers know immediately of any hazardous or defective products. We take this responsibility very seriously.

We are currently voluntarily recalling several of our products manufactured with organic garlic powder that were sold under our Frontier and Simply Organic brands and one product sold under the Whole Foods Market brand due to potential Salmonella contamination. To date, no illnesses have been associated with these products.

The product in question was raw material received by Frontier, which tested positive for Salmonella during a test by the United States Food and Drug Administration. Given that Salmonella may be present, Frontier is immediately initiating this recall.

We are immediately initiating added precautions to the supply chain to mitigate any future occurrence.