As the Health Ministry continues probing the salmonella contamination in Telma breakfast cereals, Health Minister Yaakov Litzman announced on Tuesday, 12 Menachem Av, that he does not believe action will be taken against Unilever, which owns Telma. Litzman explains that Unilever is a giant operation and it was not required to notify the Health Ministry after detecting salmonella contamination but was only required to take the necessary action to prevent the contaminated food from reaching the consumer. Litzman adds there was negligence and this is the focus of the ongoing probe.
Regarding the Nasich (Prince) Tehina Company, the company was aware of the contamination and it was required to notify the ministry, but failed to do so. He added that in addition, the tehina company failed to notify companies that purchased its product of the contamination. “At times they knew and failed to report it” Litzman explained, and this is why the order was given to shut the company down for now, halting all production.
Litzman made his remarks during the Israel Medical Conference 2016 which is sponsored by Hadassah Hospitals, Shaare Zedek Hospital, Bnei Tzion Hospital, the Friends of Israel Fund as well as Kupat Cholim Meuchedet and the Kol Ha’ir Newspaper.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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3 Responses
Sounds like terrible double standards for two different companies
The article is missing information! As posted this is clearly a double standard, #1, baron, points out! But Minister Litzman is far too straight for that so there’s got to be more to the story than this article tells us!
It is not double standards. The second company mentioned is producing techina that then gets used by other companies as ingredients. The first company bought the techina as an ingredient for their products (different spreads) without having been informed of the contamination.