Food manufacturer Tiger Brands’ initial transparency and willingness to address legitimate claims by victims of the world's most lethal and larges listeriosis outbreak...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
Tiger Brands has declined to respond in detail to an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine indicating that the source of the listeriosis outbreak in...Medico-Legal
During the listeriosis outbreak, a municipal health inspector was denied access to the Polokwane facility of Tiger Brands’ subsidiary, Consumer Brands – because he...South Africa
It has been more than a year since 200 people died in a listeriosis outbreak, and the government has still not passed changes that might be able to stop future flare-ups...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...Medico-Legal
Lawyers representing victims of the listeriosis outbreak will approach the South Gauteng High Court to certify the litigation as a class action. Tiger Brands, the...
June 13th, 2018A Business Day editorial says that Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi's selective use of statistics is a classic case of a politician under fire trying to present the...
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...
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...
