Leading food safety lawyer commends Tiger Brands for transparency
Acknowledgement that listeriosis outbreak came from their factory earns praise from leading US-based food safety attorney
"In 25 years‚ I do not recall a company releasing internal test results without a subpoena." Leading US-based food safety attorney Bill Marler‚ who is part of the legal team bringing a class action lawsuit against Tiger Brands‚ was commenting on the company’s admission that its independent tests have confirmed that the batch of processed meats in question did indeed contain ST6 — the unique strain of listeria responsible for the world’s deadliest listeriosis outbreak. The admission came in the form of a statement to the company’s shareholders late Wednesday‚ seven weeks after CEO Lawrence MacDougal’s infamous "there has been no direct correlation between our products and the deaths yet" statement at a media conference. The latest National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) report states that there have been 1‚119 confirmed cases since last January‚ with 199 deaths. More than 90% of those were linked to the outbreak strain. "Tiger Brands’ statement amounts to an acknowledgemen...
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