Kenyans health at risk as State agencies falter on food safety

The lid has been lifted on the food majority of Kenyans are eating and the broth is not something to be happy about. In fact, the millions of sufurias in most Kenyan homes have been found to contain hazardous compounds due to a multiplicity of factors.

Key among them is poor handling of food, conniving regulatory and safety agencies, vested interests and greedy traders out to make quick money. This has been happening in the full glare of government bodies mandated to ensure quality of food right from production to the dining table. In a damning report published elsewhere in this newspaper, we reveal how turf wars among state agents have exposed Kenyans to unsafe food.