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Why your quick street bite can be a health hazard to you

Street food.

It is now a typical scenario, in Nairobi and major towns in our country, seeing mutura, mandazi, chapati, sausages, eggs, ground nuts, nyama choma vendors parading themselves in strategic places, in the streets and roadside, to attract their usual customers. 

Owing the hustles of fast-paced life in cities, especially Nairobi, and as result of the biting hard economic times, the struggling public find it easier to purchase and munch chapati, mandazi and drown it with a steaming cup of tea while standing by the roadside, or carry to the workplace, where tea may be provided. 

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