The National Consumer Commission offers three months of free voice calls to its contact centre, in efforts to address food safety fears.
] Calls to the NCC hotline are zero-rated for three months, to allow incidents of food contamination to be reported.
“Some stakeholders had raised concerns that since the contact centre number is paid for, this may limit the ability of those with limited means to reach the contact centre. This, after contaminated food was linked to the deaths of several schoolchildren in some communities across SA. “Therefore, it is crucial to ensure the NCC’s contact centre is available to a wide spectrum of society and that incidents of food contamination, or the sale of expired foods are reported timeously to enable an effective response,” it says in the statement.
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