{"id":244370,"date":"2026-09-14T21:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/africa-comesa-warns-consumers-over-contaminated-woolworths-shampoo\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T21:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:00:22","slug":"africa-comesa-warns-consumers-over-contaminated-woolworths-shampoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/africa-comesa-warns-consumers-over-contaminated-woolworths-shampoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Comesa Warns Consumers Over Contaminated Woolworths Shampoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Nairobi \u2014 The COMESA Competition and Consumer Commission has warned consumers across the region about a recalled batch of Woolworths&#8217; WBeauty Complete Clarifying Shampoo over possible bacterial contamination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Woolworths, a South African retailer, recalled the 250ml shampoo after it was found to be potentially contaminated with <em>Pluralibacter gergoviae<\/em>, a bacterium that can occur in wet manufacturing environments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">In a statement, COMESA Competition and Consumer Commission Director of Consumer&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609140174.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The COMESA Competition and Consumer Commission has warned consumers across the region about a recalled batch of Woolworths&#8217; WBeauty Complete Clarifying Shampoo over possible bacterial contamination. Woolworths, a South African retailer, recalled the 250ml shampoo after it was found to be potentially contaminated with Pluralibacter gergoviae, a bacterium that can occur in wet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":244371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,13627,9223,12367,257,55432,254,6853,55431,881],"class_list":["post-244370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-comesa","tag-consumers","tag-contaminated","tag-news","tag-shampoo","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warns","tag-woolworths","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}