In hot water: Probe launched into instant noodles supplier after deaths of 3 children
It followed reports of children allegedly dying after allegedly consuming the polls.
In a statement on Thursday, the acting public consumer manager, Thezi Mabuza, said that, grounded on the information handed to the commission by other controllers and the supplier, the NCC had reasonable dubitation to believe Grandisync CC supplied" unsafe goods or goods that posed a implicit threat to the public".
"Should our disquisition reveal that, indeed, Grandisync CC fractured the vittles of the Act, we will relate the matter to the National Consumer Tribunal for the duty of an executive forfeiture of 10 of their total periodic development or R1 000 000 (one million rands), whichever is the lesser,"Mabuza said.
Mabuza added that, while the commission was awaiting laboratory results, the disquisition would help to understand the nature, cause, extent and degree of the threat to the public.
"As controllers in the food safety terrain, we will get to the bottom of this matter to insure that those liable are held responsible.
"We prompt consumers to exercise good food hygiene. Suppliers are obliged to cover consumers; where there are implicit hazards, suppliers are needed to inform the applicable controllers and consumers,"Mabuza said.
News24 preliminarily reported the Department of Health had initiated an critical disquisition into possible food poisoning in Mpumalanga, Eastern Cape and Gauteng following the deaths of children after allegedly consuming the polls.
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