Banned insecticide believed to be cause of recent food-poisoning cases

27 October 2024 - 00:00
By Hendrik Hancke

Experts in toxicology and food security believe the recent spate of food poisoning involving children in South African townships has nothing to do with expired food and  everything to do with a banned pesticide that is being illegally brought into the country.

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