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How mercury finds itself in your sugar

Some of the 1,350 bags of sugar packed in 50kg bags impounded by a Multi-agency officers team from Public Health, KEBS, KRA, DCI and Police officers at a warehouse belonging to Kanini Supermarket in Nakuru on June 19, 2018. [Kipsang Joseph/Standard]

Food adulteration to increase shelf life is one of the ways chemicals like mercury end up in your sugar.

In other cases, as an expert revealed to The Standard, residue from these toxic chemicals end up in food during processing and the post-harvest period.

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