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The listeriosis outbreak in South Africa has taken the lives of 180 people so far and a further 948 have fallen ill. Last week, the department of health announced that it had traced the source of the outbreak, which is ready-to-eat, processed meat such as French polony made by Enterprise Foods, and urged people to destroy any of the product they’d bought. But this is not the only reason not to eat processed meats. The Daily Vox visited a Johannesburg butchery to discover how polony is made, and the process is unsettling, to say the least.
By South African standards, only a total of 60% of meat needs to be added to the polony mix. This means that what is considered meat are off-cuts and products like ears, hoofs and offal. Some manufacturers add ice, bread and sludge to the mix.
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Tiger Brands flags reduced consumer demand in January
But says it’s too soon to know whether this indicates that even more challenging times lie ahead. 00:01
The strong start to its financial year has been diluted by particularly poor performance at the start of the calendar year. Image: Moneyweb
Despite reporting a 12.1% increase in revenue from continuing operations for the quarter ended December 31, 2020, listed fast-moving consumer goods giant Tiger Brands says the âstrong startâ to its financial year has been âdiluted by a particularly poor performance for the month of January 2021â.
The group, which owns brands such as Tiger Oats, Albany Bread and Tastic Rice, put out a voluntary trading update (for the four months to the end of January) and a trading statement for its upcoming half-year ending March 31 on Wednesday.