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Clean bill of health for rotting ginger at port

Mombasa Port.

A row is simmering between Mombasa port health officials and the Kenya Bureau of Standards (Kebs) after a shipment of 23,000 metric tons of ginger that had been declared unfit for human consumption was released to the owner.

On August 9, port health officials said the consignment, from Vietnam, should be destroyed after a certificate of analysis from the Government Chemist returned a resounding disqualification of the goods.  

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