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ZAMBEEF Addresses Market Concerns On Imported Beef Products
PRESS RELEASE
LUSAKA, ZAMBIA – Zambeef Products has moved to address market concerns over imported beef products, reiterating its commitment to providing high-quality, safe food for its customers.
The company noted reports in some Zambian newspapers that certain of its imported beef products contain aromatic aldehydes or formaldehyde.
While aromatic aldehydes and formaldehyde are found naturally in most food products, excessive levels can be harmful to humans.
Accordingly, on learning of these reports, the board of directors of Zambeef, in conjunction with the Ministry of Health, immediately removed all imported beef products from Zambeef’s retail outlets as a precautionary measure, and no imported beef products are now being offered for sale by the company. In addition, the company has co-operated fully with the Ministry of Health and other regulatory authorities to bring a swift conclusion to this matter.
Following the receipt of tests commissioned by the government, the Minister of Health, the Hon. Joseph Kasonde, stated that the tests indicated the presence of formaldehyde in samples of Zambeef’s imported beef products and that the Ministry of Health is working on establishing the point of contamination.
The board takes food safety issues extremely seriously and Zambeef will never knowingly offer for sale any products which could be hazardous to the health of its customers. As a consequence, the company will be undertaking a comprehensive review of internal food transport, handling and storage procedures as well as conducting extensive investigative dialogue with officials from the importing countries. It will also continue to co-operate with the government and relevant authorities to identify the level and potential source of any contamination.
The company has made clear to consumers, via local media sources, that Zambeef only imports meat products from internationally recognised meat companies in countries with globally recognised, traceability protocols in place, normally the United kingdom, Republic of Ireland or the United States of America, and that its imported beef products are accompanied by certification from all the required regulatory authorities in these countries, as applicable. The embargo on imported beef products remains in place until further notice.
The sale of imported beef products accounted for approximately 4 percent of the company’s annual turnover in 2012. Nevertheless, the company recognises that the negative publicity created by this matter could impact other product lines and, in doing so, Zambeef’s profitability for the current financial year. These effects are difficult to quantify in the short term, but the board will provide a further update in its pre-close statement in late September.
Zambeef Chief Executive Officer Francis Grogan said: “Clearly it has been a difficult period in light of the reports concerning the company’s imported beef products and we are co-operating fully with the government to draw a line under the matter. We are committed to ensuring all products sold by Zambeef are of the highest quality and safe for our consumers, which is why we will continue to suspend the sale of imported beef products until the Ministry of Health and Zambeef have fully resolved the matter.
“We believe that Zambeef remains well placed to build on its position as one of the leading food producers in Sub-Saharan Africa.”
Posted by Kunda
on July 20, 2013. Filed under BUSINESS, LATEST NEWS, NEWS.
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P1
July 20, 2013 at 7:25 pm
It is chief embalming officer.
Ba game
July 20, 2013 at 8:28 pm
nothing wil convce me ba zamkiller, i hate u more than my stinkin ass.
2kiya
July 20, 2013 at 9:15 pm
Zam beef my foot. We’ll be eating Vinkubala and Ubowa
sir jeff
July 20, 2013 at 11:13 pm
awe ine ndelye mbushi
kakolwe
July 20, 2013 at 11:27 pm
Yes boGrogdehyde. Eve me its ONLY ‘loca’ (as in famili farm) grown pigs, goats & chickens. I’ll NEVER step into Zambeef embalmers even for my son’s beloved yoghart!!!!
hussen daka
July 21, 2013 at 12:28 am
Zambians unless you are ****** that you will go and buy anything from Zambeef.
The goverment of Zambia must close all the outlets and deport the Directors back to italy.
You look at the level of cancer in Zambia please, please Ba Sata do something and this company should not take an award.
JS
July 21, 2013 at 7:27 am
I can read Zambeef promising unknowly not to supply its products to us and this to me sound as a word to blindfold the team of investigation and as far as concerned their practs is endless.
kwacha
July 21, 2013 at 8:04 am
Nowander zambeef workers neva cary even a piece of meat from their outlets.
This is being more than satanic,how can you be killing innocent citizens slowly just to make a profit out of it,so that wen u go back to yo damned countries u enjoy the bloody profits 4geting the unhealth impact u idi*#*ts u are creating on zampeople. All zambeef money is “bloody” money. If i was a honest zambeef worker, i would have felt guilty and stop working for vizambeef.
ZAM PEOPLE LETS ALL NOT ALLOW SUCH IN OUR ONLY COUNTRY BY PROTAS#ING AGAINST THESE WIKED ZAM~IMBUMED MEATS
ZAMCONCERN
July 21, 2013 at 10:03 am
ZAM KILLERS YOU ARE OFFSIDE AND YOU HAVE COMMITTED A FOUL TO ZAM PEOPLE. YOU ARE GIVEN A RED CARD!Its very pit for the Government that allow and sell its citizens to the so called ZAMKILLERS just because it bribed the government officials to say its the imported products.
oxmos
July 21, 2013 at 10:19 am
awe i will feed zambeef products and especially the smoked ribs…mmmm, i know people who give the broilers the ARVs,human feaces i water,etc…so i and zambeef here i come…its only God bane
Musonda Njalamimba
July 21, 2013 at 11:30 am
How can the entire Board and Management sit and decide that they shall be putting such chemicals which are harmful to the people. Let us be responsible and the government should take those people to task. They have affected our lives and love for meat (T-BONE).
kiduli
July 21, 2013 at 12:21 pm
Wow! Nowander, Crogan offals are tasteless.
smart
July 21, 2013 at 12:53 pm
This is a deliberate political action aimed at weakening zambeef n everyone who has heavily invested in it…whoever is behind it is a genius looking at the responses from most of these miseducated majority
Rogku
July 21, 2013 at 1:24 pm
you are sick and lack political…………. were are taking health here not politics.
Dimma
July 24, 2013 at 7:03 pm
Just read tomorrow news you retard!
Walya
July 21, 2013 at 1:24 pm
Where is the nearest outle
t in shangombo. I want to be eating the embalmed meat so that am not embalmed after i die
craus Ryan
July 21, 2013 at 1:52 pm
No matter what you say croocked Grogan will not change the position of the Zambian pipo. Just eat your meat. We can not continue to be embalmed by you.
bm
July 21, 2013 at 2:19 pm
bane kale twa ntampa ukulya embarm, fyala chipa nomba,lets continue ukulya.
chichi
July 21, 2013 at 2:26 pm
They tested the meat and found the chemicals even zambeef admits so why are u saying its political personally I thought the idiots would be shut down bt hey guess its easy to kill a million pipo by feeding them harmful chemicals than to deal with this company……….awe sure ichalo nachonaika!!!!!!
Kapoli
July 21, 2013 at 6:36 pm
” Zambeef will never knowingly offer for sale any products which could be hazardous to the health of its customers.” Does this mean they knew in the past and are now creating a safe guard statement for when they again contaminate the Zambian people in the future. One is left to wonder
onezambia1ntn
July 21, 2013 at 7:29 pm
Zambalmer: “killing the nation” is their slogan. Very bad manners
Village Chicken
July 21, 2013 at 8:23 pm
@Tumfweko, Formaldehyde is not an Atomatic Aldehyde and it not one and the same thing. Methanal, Formalin is Formaldehyde. Chemically we represent it as HCHO, CH2O. That ‘Aromatic Aldehyde’ means nothing as that class of benzene based substances is as large as endless in number and form. Inform the nation. Your reporting is far from competent.