Triad Group issues product recall of iodine prep pads
e-mail print By Rick Barrett of the Journal Sentinel
March 18, 2011

Triad Group, the Hartland medical products manufacturer that issued a large recall of alcohol wipes suspected of being contaminated with bacteria, has issued another product recall.

On its Web site, Triad says it has recalled Povidone Iodine Prep Pads out of concerns by the Food and Drug Administration that the pads were contaminated with the organism Elizabethkingia meningoseptica.

Last fall, Triad issued an urgent recall of its alcohol swabs and wipes because the products might have been contaminated.

The company said the bacteria could lead to "life-threatening infections" in at-risk populations, including surgical and immune-suppressed patients. The recall, according to the company, was being done out of an "abundance of caution" after one report of a nonlife-threatening skin infection.