Zambeef Products Plc has reiterated its commitment to providing safe, high quality affordable meat to the people of Zambia.
And the company has stood by its insistence that its imported offal products do not contain any prohibited substances whatsoever. Imported products are transported to Zambia from the country of origin via a strict frozen cold chain kept at minus 18 degrees celsius, and with full official documentation.
“Zambeef prides itself in maintaining world-class standards of food hygiene and safety and it is a responsibility that everyone in the company takes very seriously,” said Zambeef Chief Executive Officer Francis Grogan. “The company continues to work closely with the authorities to demonstrate conclusively that its imported products are safe.”
“We are deeply concerned for the distress this scaremongering has caused to our customers and I wish to reassure people that Zambeef continues to supply them with the safest, highest quality food,” he added.
Mr Grogan praised the professionalism of Zambeef’s 5,500 employees and emphasised the company’s contribution to the economy of the nation in terms of the considerable tax revenue paid annually to the government; its pivotal role in providing a link between small-scale farmers and consumers; and in being a linchpin for national food security.
He also commended the efforts of officials for their thorough investigation into the allegations and reiterated that the company was working closely with the Ministry of Health to demonstrate that all imported products are free from any harmful substances.
He also emphasised that the allegations were related solely to a small quantity of imported offal – liver and kidney – and that Zambeef’s local beef products were not affected by the claims.
The company also restated that all the imported items have been withdrawn until conclusive tests are completed.
Ver mature statement. Let us wait and see what the ministry of health will conclude.
Very mature statement. Let us wait and hear what the Ministry of Health will conclude for the benefit of all concerned. I am a chemist and an environmental health and management consultant but I have never known aromatic aldehydes and formaldehyde to be the same (because they are not the same). Aromatic aldehydes are certainly not used for embalming bodies unless maybe in Zambia (if this is the case then I stand to be corrected), it is formaldehyde which is.
By the way did anyone know that if you heat and reheat cooking oil you can produce some aromatic adehydes in it? How many homes reuse cooking oil after frying something and have become ill? Come to think of it, what were the exact names of the aromatic aldehydes that were found as there are thousands of them?
tu kapususu,you failed to run zambian airways on top of that you even stole 18billion,now you want to finish zambeef…never.i conducted a check on a number of zambeef outlets and found ques of people thinking they are returning meat…awe they are still buying and they ill continue buying no matter what the post writes.
All Zambeef operations should have been suspended until investigations are thoroughly concluded. With them still operating, evidence is already been tempered with and we wont know the truth. The fact that Zambians are being embalmed before they die baffles me. Bane natuleke ukutemwa ukulya ichifu/fimatumbo ifyabola.
ZAWA should start supplying us with game meat CHAPWA! They could make a quick buck too seeing as they are broke
You have just been embalmed.
if u dont know that these chemicals cause cancer, then you are a fake and cheap chemists
Everyone is busy talking about the chemicals used in the offals imported, no one is questioning why we are importing offals from the EU. It is well know that Europe is the epicenter of Mad Cow Disease (a disease that causes the degeneration of an animals brain and spinal cord). Mad cow disease is easily transmitted to humans when they consume beef from an infected animal, particularly the brain, spine and intestines (offals) aswell as other parts. For this reason, beef imports from the EU have been banned by several countries including the USA, Japan, Canada and Russia since 1998. Eating meat contaminated with Mad cow disease has caused the deaths of about 150 people in the UK alone, over the last 20 years.
So why is Zambeef bringing in potentially harmfull products into the country?
iwe chi spectator, this is not time for cheap logic or proving who a petty chemists is, ok!