NRCS: Tinned fish deficiency picked up nine months after production
The National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications says the problem with the tinned fish that is being recalled was only picked up nine months after production.
It says a national recall for certain brands of pilchards in tomato and chilli sauce is due to a defective canning process.
It says the deficiency was picked up after cans manufactured by West Point Processors in Cape Town started leaking.
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The regulator's Meisie Katz says all compromised products were manufactured in 2019.
"The manufacturer has been working day and night to ensure that all products that were produced in 2019 are returned to their possession and are returned to the retailers where a consumer has bought it.
"With regards to the products themselves - the products from June 2019 to December 2019 are already with the manufacturer. Currently, we are looking at the products that were produced from February 2019 up until May 2019."
Katz says they've ordered all formal wholesalers, retailers and informal traders to remove the 400-gram tin - which features the ZST29 and ZSC29 codes - from their shelves with immediate effect.
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