LONDON, March 16 (Reuters) - A huge and deadly outbreak of listeria in South Africa could alter the country's approach to food-borne disease and prompt improvements in food safety standards, a leading health official said on Friday.
The World Health Organization's top specialist on global food safety likened the South African outbreak's potential impact to the "mad cow disease" BSE crisis in Europe that began in the 1980s and a vast E-coli outbreak traced to "Jack in the Box" burgers in the United States in 1993.
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