Pick n Pay Group Enterprises Director DALLAS LANGMAN has assured Zambian government that the retail chain store will cooperative with government’s directive to remove products from its stores that have been listed as posing potential danger to the spread of the current outbreak of Listeriosis disease that affected South Africa.
In an assurance letter sent to the Zambian High Commissioner to South Africa, His Excellency Mr. EMMANUEL MWAMBA, LANGMAN said the removing the listed products from the store’s shelves was the right thing to do.
He said his chain store proactively began to remove ready-to-eat meat products the moment they were identified as being the source of the disease, adding that the company will continue exercising sense of responsibility until the end of the disease.
Mr. Langman, however, appealed to government authorities to issue coordinated information to both the retailers and Health Inspectors to ensure that the process was complete and detailed.
He observed that there was need to formulate strict mechanism to ensure that there was uniformity of information disseminated to stakeholders in order to avoid issuing conflicting messages which were adding to what he describe as an “already complex situation”.
Mr. Langman said lack of clarity on the list of potential products to be removed from the store’s shelves was causing public confusion and increasing workload of all stakeholders without benefits to public health.
He has since appealed to the Zambian High Commission in Pretoria to help facilitate the communication right information between the chain store and relevant government institutions to enable the company continue fully cooperating as it was already doing.
This comes in the wake of government banning the import of ready-to-eat meat and other products from South Africa following the outbreak of Listeriosis in that country that has so far claimed lives of 180 people.
Prior to banning the import of ready to eat meat products, Zambia’s High Commissioner to South Africa, His Excellency Mr. EMMANUEL MWAMBA called on South African retail chain stores operating in Zambia to recall ready-to-eat meat products imported from that country following expert confirmation that the products were a source of Listeria bacteria.
The Mission had earlier requested the South African government through the Department of International Relations and Corporation (DIRCO), to put precautionary health measures in place to ensure that all its food exports to Zambia were free of a food borne disease.
PICK AND PWEEEEEE
How is this news….do you expect them to refuse??
Those meats will shortly be back. It’s these PF government thieves to blame for all the mess we’re going through by not encouraging local produce from within Zambia. Not long ago, we were being fed with offauls laced with poisonous chemicals meant for cremated human dead bodies by another muzungu meat producers dabbed ZAMBEEF. This country is in trouble for a long time to come
Where are they destroying them? The goods will soon be back on the shelves, repackaged with NEW and DIFFERENT LABELS
When babies died in China after drinking bad milk, DIRECTORS of that company were sentenced to death (killed) by firing squad.
Comment: what are the symptoms of listreliosis as some might ve contracted it already ?
Why is langman involving Mwamba? so he can pass the buck to the wrong man? Pick n pwee know what foods to remove. They dont need clarofication from Mwamba. The SA health ministry of health issued directives long ago and responsible shops don’t need high commissions to pass these to them
Fridges have been emptied of polonies in Johannesburg. Do the same in Zed period.