{"id":106756,"date":"2023-11-12T20:52:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T20:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/beware-nairobians-cautioned-as-uninspected-chicken-floods-local-eateries"},"modified":"2023-11-12T21:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T21:22:18","slug":"beware-nairobians-cautioned-as-uninspected-chicken-floods-local-eateries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/beware-nairobians-cautioned-as-uninspected-chicken-floods-local-eateries","title":{"rendered":"Beware! Nairobians cautioned as uninspected chicken floods local eateries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>Nairobians have been put on high alert following a sharp increase in the sale of uninspected chicken meat in food outlets in Nairobi and other major towns.<\/p>\n<p>According to Director of Veterinary Services Obadiah Njagi, the meat is mainly sourced from the broiler chicken farmers who slaughter at their homesteads and distribute at hotels and other eateries contrary to the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is contrary to Meat Control Act Cap 356 of laws of Kenya which states that food animals should only be slaughtered in licensed slaughterhouses under the supervision of an inspecting officer,\u201d the circular reads.<\/p>\n<p>The cicular has been addressed to all county directors of veterinary services and copied to the Director General of Health and Livestock Development principal secretary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition, meat should only be transported in licensed meat containers accompanied with the requisite meat transport documents indicating the source slaughterhouse of the meat and the destination among other important details,\u201d it adds.<\/p>\n<p>This, Njagi said, exposes Kenyans to unhygienic meat and meat products which act as the source of the spread of harmful drug residues and other contaminants thereby endangering their health.<\/p>\n<p>To stem this, he has called for heightened surveillance and close cooperation with other stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should also work in close cooperation with other stakeholders in food safety including the law enforcement agencies to ensure perpetrators of these illegal activities are dealt with according to the law,\u201d Njagi said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\">Kenya<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. Nairobians have been put on high alert following a sharp increase in the sale of uninspected chicken meat in food outlets in Nairobi and other major towns. According to Director of Veterinary Services Obadiah Njagi, the meat is mainly sourced from the broiler chicken farmers who slaughter at their homesteads and distribute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":106755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[6857,7003,544],"class_list":["post-106756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-kenya","tag-kenya"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Beware! 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