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Tiger Brands to sell processed meat division traced to deadly outbreak

By Joe Whitworth on August 18, 2020

Tiger Brands is to sell its processed meats division, which includes the business implicated in the Listeria outbreak in South Africa in 2017 and 2018.

The transaction includes two separate deals — Molare Proprietary Ltd.
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New listeriosis cases down; newborns remain hardest hit

By News Desk on July 2, 2018
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New information out of South Africa shows 1,053 people have been confirmed with Listeria infections in the past 18 months. One in five has died in what the…
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Pace of new listeriosis cases and deaths slowing in South Africa

By News Desk on June 2, 2018

In the world’s largest recorded listeriosis outbreak, South Africa has added four more confirmed cases and four more deaths, the National Listeria Incident Management Team reports. 

The team’s latest report brings the confirmed death toll…
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Victims file suit in listeria outbreak; more illnesses expected

By Coral Beach on March 29, 2018

As the World Health Organization told countries around the world this week to make listeriosis a reportable disease because of the ongoing crisis in South Africa, outbreak victims and their families filed a class action…
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Tiger Brands says Listeria outbreak could cost it 1 billion Rand

By News Desk on March 22, 2018
In South Africa, polony products — similar to processed meats such as baloney, hot dogs and sausage in the United States — have been recalled because of Listeria contamination.

The world’s…
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