News / National
Zimbabwe raids shops for SA cold meats
10 Mar 2018 at 04:25hrs | Views
Government has dispatched teams to inspect ready-to-eat cold meats, particularly those imported from South Africa, that are being sold in supermarkets and the informal sector following the ban on cold meat imports.
The ban was necessitated by revelations from South Africa that particular brands of polony had traces of a bacteria causing a food borne poisonous disease, listeria, which has so far claimed 180 lives in that country since 2017.
Deputy Director for communicable diseases in the Ministry of Health and Child Care Dr Isaac Phiri said inspection was taking place in food outlets and companies in risk areas and in border districts.
"We have dispatched teams to our local supermarkets, tuck-shops and even on the streets to monitor anyone selling this particular brand, Enterprise by Tiger brands," he said.
"So far we have not come across any of this brand."
Dr Phiri said health teams were also monitoring the boarder post to ensure that the particular brand, together with Rainbow Chickens, were not smuggled.
The ban was necessitated by revelations from South Africa that particular brands of polony had traces of a bacteria causing a food borne poisonous disease, listeria, which has so far claimed 180 lives in that country since 2017.
Deputy Director for communicable diseases in the Ministry of Health and Child Care Dr Isaac Phiri said inspection was taking place in food outlets and companies in risk areas and in border districts.
"We have dispatched teams to our local supermarkets, tuck-shops and even on the streets to monitor anyone selling this particular brand, Enterprise by Tiger brands," he said.
"So far we have not come across any of this brand."
Dr Phiri said health teams were also monitoring the boarder post to ensure that the particular brand, together with Rainbow Chickens, were not smuggled.
Source - zimpapers
