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 the deadly listeriosis outbreak, the company is gearing up for a big and nasty fight.
A government-led investigation found that listeriosis, a bacterial infection that is commonly transmitted by the ingestion of contaminated food products, had originated from a Tiger Brands factory in Polokwane, Limpopo. The factory, which was subsequently closed on 5 March, 2018, produced Enterprise branded ready-to-eat processed meat products.
This is a key development for the lawsuit, which will likely be protracted because class actions by nature take time and are more complex than normal court processes. The third concerns people who suffered harm when people they were dependent on died from listeriosis after consuming contaminated Tiger Brands products.
In court papers, human rights attorney Richard Spoor said the Consumer Protection Act provides for strict liability of producers, distributors, retailers, and suppliers of goods for the harm caused in the supply of unsafe, defective or hazardous goods.[Tiger Brands] marketed the contaminated products on the basis that they were safe and ready-to-eat without further heating or cooking,” he said.
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