Tag: listeria
Tiger brands doubts it will find origin of listeria bacteria found at factories
JOHANNESBURG - As Enterprise Foods battles to win the trust of consumers again, Tiger Brands says it highly doubts that it will ever know...
What will it take to improve Food Safety Standards in SA?
The recent Listeria outbreak, which claimed over 180 lives, has been a major eye opener for South Africans and has resulted in consumers not...
Health Officials Release Statement Clarifying Source of South Africa’s Listeria Outbreak
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) is concerned about recent developments and statements supposedly released as facts into the public domain about the...
Troubled Tiger closes another factory
Tiger Brands, the company behind the killer polony scandal, has closed another factory because of traces of listeria. This was announced on Monday in...
Another discovery of listeria
Shoprite says recalled Farmer's Deli Red Viennas following discovery of listeria. The group says further testing needs to be done to confirm the presence...
Four countries ‘immediately’ suspend SA chilled meat imports
Four countries in southern Africa on Monday took steps against South African chilled meat imports made at a factory found to be the origin...
SA’s Listeria outbreak reveals urgent need for a designated food control agency
With over 720 laboratory-confirmed cases of food poisoning caused by Listeria in 2017*, and the death toll resulting from the current outbreak surpassing 60, South...