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Tiger Brands should be criminally charged: activist

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) plan to launch a class action case against food giant Tiger Brands for the company’s alleged involvement in the Listeriosis crisis. The Department of Health identified that an Enterprise food production facility in Polokwane, Limpopo, as the source of the listeriosis outbreak in South Africa. Tiger Brands, which owns Enterprise, has denied any direct links between the deaths of 180 people and its products. At […]

9 March 2018

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Halal inspectors cannot test for bacteria strain: MJCHT

By Tasneem Adams While the halal certification processes at abatoirs and manufacturing plants include hygiene and food safety compliance, the Muslim Judicial Council Halal Trust (MJCHT) says it does not have the capacity to conduct regular scientific testing into microbial contamination of food products. This is according to the MJCHT trust director Shaykh Achmat Sedick, in the wake of two processed meat companies being identified as the source of the […]

6 March 2018

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Consumer Commission wants proper disposal plan on tainted processed meat

By Wardah Wilkinson The National Consumer Commission says it wants a proper disposal plan from Tiger Brands and RCL Foods, the parent companies of Enterprise and Rainbow Chicken. The companies have come under fire, after it was found that the deadly strain of listeriosis, which has killed 180 people, had originated from procecced meat products manufactured at three of its plants. All procecced meat products from these companies have been […]

6 March 2018

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Poultry industry crisis deepens

By Thakira Desai The Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) and its industry stakeholders have called on the European Union (EU) to intervene in the job loss crisis that has hit the South Africa’s poultry industry. This follows a recent march by FAWU and its members to the European Union (EU) Embassy in Pretoria earlier this week. Speaking to VOC’s Breakfast Beat, MD of RCL Foods, Scott Pitman explains that […]

4 February 2017

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Tiger Brands should be criminally charged: activist

Halal inspectors cannot test for bacteria strain: MJCHT

Consumer Commission wants proper disposal plan on tainted processed meat

Poultry industry crisis deepens

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