Brief: Ter Beke: Updates on Product Recall By Its Dutch Subsidiary Offerman

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04/10/2019 14:20

Oct 4 (Reuters) - Ter Beke NV  TERB.BR :
    * TER BEKE REACTS ON THE MEDIA COVERAGE IN RELATION TO A PRODUCT RECALL BY
ITS
DUTCH SUBSIDIARY OFFERMAN
    * DECISION TO RECALL WAS TAKEN AFTER RECENT RESULTS OF QUALITY INSPECTIONS
WERE
EVALUATED BY OFFERMAN AALSMEER AND THE NVWA
    * EMPHASIZES THAT THE POSSIBLE CONTAMINATION AND RECALL ONLY CONCERN
PRODUCTS FROM
THE OFFERMAN LOCATION IN AALSMEER
    * RECALL WAS CARRIED OUT BY OFFERMAN ON 3RD OF OCTOBER 2019 AFTER
CONSULTATION
WITH DUTCH FOOD AND CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY AUTHORITY (NEDERLANDSE VOEDSEL-EN
WARENAUTORITEIT – ‘NVWA’) AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE RULES AND PROCEDURES
    * ALL CUSTOMERS INVOLVED WERE ALREADY INFORMED BY OFFERMAN ON THE 3RD OF
OCTOBER
2019
    * ACTIVITIES AT THE AALSMEER LOCATION, ARE TEMPORARILY STOPPED, IN
CONSULTATION
WITH THE NVWA, IN ORDER TO ALLOW FURTHER INVESTIGATION
    * NO OTHER LOCATION OF THE GROUP IS INVOLVED
    * SAME LISTERIA STRAIN FOUND IN CASES OF ILLNESS IN NETHERLANDS, INCLUDING
THREE
DEATHS AND MISCARRIAGE, AND IN OFFERMAN IN AALSMEER
    * FINANCIAL IMPACT OF THE RECALL AND THE TEMPORARY CESSATION OF ACTIVITIES
AT
OFFERMAN AALSMEER ON GROUP RESULTS CANNOT YET BE ESTIMATED
    * SHARES SUSPENDED AS OF 1044 GMT, WERE DOWN 9% AHEAD OF SUSPENSION 

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