The Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) has upheld Tiger Brands' bid to compel third parties to provide critical epidemiological information related to the listeriosis...Epidemiology
The listeriosis outbreak that killed more than 200 people in South Africa between 2017 and 2018 was fuelled by HIV and a lack of awareness of the risks of eating deli...Medico-Legal
More than a year after South Africa’s largest food producer Tiger Brands recalled its ready-to-eat processed meat products and closed its production facilities over...
December 12th, 2018The first claims associated with the listeriosis class action could be paid out in mid to late 2020 at the earliest. City Press reports that this is according to Richard...
Fewer than five listeriosis cases per week have been reported for the last four weeks‚ The Times reports the National Listeria Incident Management Team said in its...Weekly Roundup
The South African government says that it is conducting a review of food safety legislation in a bid to prevent another deadly outbreak of listeriosis. Polity reports...South Africa
The deadly South African listeriosis outbreak has a high 28.6% fatality rate, according to a report by the National Listeria Incident Management Team (IMT). The IMT...
April 25th, 2018The death toll from South Africa's listeriosis outbreak has reached 199, with 50 new infections reported since the recall of implicated products on 4 March. Despite...
Two more people have died from listeriosis in South Africa, raising the death toll to 193, according to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), says the...Medico-Legal
A 'dream team' of world-class food safety experts is ready to act on behalf of SA's listeriosis victims and their family members, according to the mammoth 501-page...
