An assessment by two European agencies has confirmed a Listeria outbreak from cold meat in the Netherlands and Belgium.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) found people became sick between 2017 and August this year but were not able to link
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Tiger Brands’ full-year results have been impacted by a slower than anticipated recovery in the part of the business that includes Enterprise Foods.
The results cover the year ended Sept. 30, 2019. Enterprise Foods is in the Value Added Meat Products (VAMP) business of Tiger Brands.
Although there was a
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The parents of a baby girl who died from listeriosis seconds after being born have described how the tragedy impacted their lives.
Nomonde Mahule was told during labor that her daughter would not survive as delivery came too early.
The baby was born prematurely at 25 weeks and cried out
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A woman who lost her baby boy to the South African listeriosis outbreak has said the death left a void in her life.
Innocentia Phaahla was pregnant at the time of her illness. In late November 2017 she was hospitalized and gave birth to a stillborn child before being discharged.
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Tiger Brands is considering selling its processed meats business that was identified as the source of the South African Listeria outbreak in 2017 and 2018.
The company said as part of a strategic review it had been looking at the possibility of selling its Value Added Meat Products (VAMP) business,
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A survivor of the South African Listeria outbreak has described the ordeal as extremely painful and emotionally traumatic.
Gina Moyo was hospitalized for eight days in November 2017. She was quarantined and not allowed to see her two children.
“It really is something I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy.
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The company linked to a deadly Listeria outbreak has revealed it has found the cause of contamination at its Hungarian plant.
Greenyard said it found a persistent presence of Listeria monocytogenes in one of the freezing tunnels and as a result, will close down this tunnel at the Baja-based plant.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has congratulated South Africa after the largest Listeria outbreak in recorded history was declared over.
South African Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said the outbreak had ended at a media briefing on Monday. The last known outbreak case of listeriosis was identified in the first week
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The largest ever detected Listeria outbreak in known history is over, according to officials in South Africa.
Between Jan. 1, 2017, and July 17, 2018, South Africa recorded 1,060 laboratory-confirmed cases of listeriosis, including 216 deaths.
The outbreak was linked to a ready-to-eat (RTE) processed meat plant owned by Tiger
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The Hungarian frozen vegetable factory believed to be the source of a Listeria outbreak that sickened 54 people in six countries, killing 10 of them, is set to restart production.
Following shutdown and cleaning, all tests at the Baja production site were negative for the presence of Listeria monocytogenes, according
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