Listeria causes serious illness and food recalls nearly every year.
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Healthy food is fresh food and it needs to be made affordable for everyone.
Food safety is in the news again, this tiime after reported deaths from listeria after eating smoked salmon. Here’s what we know so far and what you can do to cut your chance of getting sick.
Foreign shop-owners in South Africa are accused of selling counterfeit food and food beyond its sell-by date. These claims are driven by politically charged opinions, not evidence.
South Africa’s food making giant, Tiger Brands, could have handled the listeriosis crisis better.
The bacterial pathogen that is responsible for listeriosis can survive under even the toughest conditions.
Two people have died after eating rockmelon contaminated with listeria. A total of ten cases have been confirmed in NSW, Queensland and Victoria between Jan 17 and Feb 9, and more are expected.
As the death count in South Africa’s listeriosis outbreak rises, Canadian researchers are isolating bacteria from the microbiome of exotic foods to try to develop a solution.
Health authorities in South Africa have launched an investigation to find the food source that has resulted in an unprecedented increase in listeria cases across the country.
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Associate Professor and Clinical Academic Gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University
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Professor - Department of Plant and Soil Sciences and co-director of the Centre of Excellence in Food Security, University of Pretoria
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Senior Researcher in Urban Food Security and Food Systems, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Food Safety, University of Guelph
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Researcher at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing Management at the University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg
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Assistant Professor of Microbiology, University of Dayton
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Pathologist, Centre for Vaccines and Immunology, NICD, National Institute for Communicable Diseases