The Min­istry of Health (MoH) is ad­vis­ing the pub­lic to avoid us­ing a par­tic­u­lar ba­by for­mu­la that cur­rent­ly is the sub­ject of a prod­uct re­call across the Unit­ed States, Puer­to Ri­co and Guam.

It says it is is­su­ing this ad­vice out of an abun­dance of cau­tion, al­though pre­lim­i­nary in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­di­cate this coun­try may not have re­ceived any of the ba­by for­mu­la in ques­tion.

In an of­fi­cial state­ment, the min­istry says Reckitt—the man­u­fac­tur­er of En­famil ProSobee Sim­ply Plant-Based In­fant For­mu­la—has ac­ti­vat­ed a vol­un­tary re­call of 145,000 cans of the ba­by for­mu­la, fol­low­ing con­fir­ma­tion that there was pos­si­ble cross-con­t­a­m­i­na­tion of two batch­es of the 12.9-ounce cans of for­mu­la with Cronobac­ter sakaza­kii bac­te­ria.

The prod­uct was man­u­fac­tured be­tween Au­gust and Sep­tem­ber, was dis­trib­uted to stores across the US, Guam and Puer­to Ri­co.  It has a use-by date of March 1, 2024, on the bot­tom, along with the codes ZL2HZF or ZL2HZZ.

“While checks made with dis­trib­u­tors lo­cal­ly con­clud­ed that none of the for­mu­la from the re­called batch­es were im­port­ed in­to the coun­try,” the state­ment from the health min­istry said, “out of an abun­dance of cau­tion, the Min­istry ad­vis­es per­sons who may be in pos­ses­sion of the re­called for­mu­la with the list­ed batch num­bers, to dis­con­tin­ue use im­me­di­ate­ly and to re­turn the prod­uct to the place of pur­chase where pos­si­ble.”

The min­istry as­sures it will con­tin­ue to mon­i­tor the sit­u­a­tion and ad­vise the pop­u­la­tion as nec­es­sary.

Ad­di­tion­al In­for­ma­tion can be ob­tained by con­tact­ing the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of the Chem­istry, Food and Drugs Di­vi­sion (CFDD) at 623-5242, or by email­ing cfdd@health.gov.tt