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What did you have for breakfast: Kenya's most popular foods slowly turning into poison

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Bad food is no food. Our popular maize, milk and meat diets are now contaminated

Poor child development in parts of Nairobi have been linked to poisoned maize, sorghum and milk.

Scientists have tested maize, sorghum and milk fed to hundreds of city children, measured child growth and attribute their poor development partly to these foods.

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