Tiger Brands May Not Find How Deadly Bacteria Entered Plant
- South African listeriosis outbreak was world’s biggest
- Company is waiting for samples to confirm sequencing link
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Tiger Brands Ltd. may never know how a strain of bacteria linked by the government to the world’s deadliest outbreak of listeriosis entered its South African factory.
Africa’s largest listed packaged-food maker has spent the past three months testing and cleaning the Enterprise processed-meat plant in the northeast of the country that was identified by Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi as the source of the deadly crisis. More than 200 people in the country have died from listeriosis since the start of 2017.