Fresh Fruit Portal: The head of a company embroiled in an Australian food safety scare earlier this year says frozen berry products are improving every week, although sales are still below comparative levels in 2014.

Patties Foods (ASX:PFL) managing director Stephen Chaur told AAP while no direct link had actually been found between his group’s berry products and a Hepatitis A outbreak, the category was still “underperforming”.

“It is recovering slowly, but it is going to be a long, slow haul,” Chaur was quoted as saying. “We’re pretty optimistic that coming into summer – it’s berry season, everyone’s getting fit, everyone’s drinking smoothies – that sales will start to pick up.

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