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20 Tips to Avoid and Prevent Food Poisoning

9 Feb 202113 Sep 2018 by Rika

Nearly everyone gets food poisoning at least once in his or her lifetime. Here are 20 handy tips to avoid and prevent food poisoning. These tips refer to households, but can also be used in any food-handling, processing and packaging enterprise. You can find the germs that cause food poisoning …

Listeriosis – A Killer on the Loose

9 Feb 20217 Sep 2018 by Rika

Listeriosis is a disease caused by the bacterium called Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes). The recent Listeriosis outbreak in South Africa killed at least 180 people and infected almost 1000 others since January 2017. It was the world’s worst recorded listeria outbreak. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases eventually identified the …