JOHANNESBURG - Pressure is mounting on President Cyril Ramaphosa to declare a state of emergency over the rise in incidents ...

The use of chemicals to kill rats by a pest control services firm in an apartment here has turned lethal for a family of four ...

With the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be health secretary, this is what he has said about food and nutrition.

Black kitchen utensils are the latest to be caught in the crosshairs of the war on plastic with new research suggesting black ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has ordered the immediate closure of spaza shops, implicated in the deaths of children.

President Cyril Ramaphosa announces strict measures to combat rising food poisoning deaths linked to illegal pesticides in ...

Motsoaledi explained that while it had initially been indicated as being another group of chemicals used as pesticides ... unregistered poisons sold by street vendors and spaza shops across ...

A chemical agent has been identified as the cause of a recent surge in food-related illnesses and deaths, affecting school ...

Terbufos is a chemical used in organophosphate insecticides to control insects and pests on some crops. Those affected believe they fell sick because of food poisoning from products, particularly ...

Arrests made for illegal chemical sales In a related development ... the Gauteng Department of Health reported 207 cases of food poisoning in children since February 2024, with 10 fatalities.

The National Informal Traders Alliance says President Cyril Ramaphosa's plan to re-register all spaza shops in South Africa in 21 days is too ambitious, given the number of spaza shops nationwide.

President Cyril Ramaphosa, on Friday, 15 November 2024, addressed South Africa on the spate of food poisoning deaths sweeping ...