BUSINESS NEWS
Food scam prompts fraud charge
Posted Wed, 30 Aug 2006
The multi-national Pioneer Foods group has laid a criminal charge against an East London warehouse for allegedly tampering with its food, Dispatch Online reported on Tuesday.
This followed an expose last week by the Daily Dispatch on the possible illegal removal of expiry dates on food products by a food distribution company.
A fraud charge was laid on Monday against the company and its owner.
Investigator Charl van Vuuren, who had been commissioned by Pioneer subsidiary Bokomo Foods, handed in a sworn statement with the SAPS' commercial branch in East London.
In the statement, he said he had seen several boxes of Heinz two-minute noodles, Heinz canned soup, Bokomo cereals, Bokomo bread biscuits and Moir's custard, all of which had been tampered with in the warehouse.
Spar Eastern Cape division managing director Conrad Isaac told the Dispatch he would soon meet food manufacturers, whose tampered products had been sold in Spar stores owned
by franchise holder Götz von Westernhagen.
Spar national marketing executive Roelf Venter earlier warned store owners that a supplier was allegedly selling falsely-labelled expired foods.
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