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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Food dispatched to disaster-stricken areas and distributed to schools will be verified to establish whether it meets health standards, the executive director of the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has said.<\/p>\n

Mr Livingstone Ebiru, said the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) will seek approval from them before dispatching the food.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not taking any chances on food. We are going to require OPM to buy relief food in advance so that we verify its health safety so that by the time disasters hit, we know that the food to be sent is safe for consumption,\u201d Mr Ebiru said while meeting editors in Kampala last Friday.<\/p>\n

Schools cautioned<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cWe want government to take that direction. We are also trying to force schools to buy food from certified suppliers. If our children are not fed on safe food, how do you expect them to live up to 60 years?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

Mr Ebiru warned school officials against using their influence to supply sub-standard food to schools.<\/p>\n

In July last year, Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja rejected an assortment of relief items donated to flood victims in Kasese District for being sub-standard.<\/p>\n

The items included 40,000kgs of maize flour, 20,000kgs of beans, 2,000kgs of sugar, 2,000 tarpaulin, 1,350 jerricans, 1,000 basins, 100 cartons of laundry soap, 1,000 mosquito nets, 100 blankets, and 100 mats.<\/p>\n

\u201cKasese District is not a dumping ground, I have rejected blankets and mosquito nets because they are substandard. The supplier must bring good ones, these are the things that paint a bad image for our government,\u201d Ms Nabbanja said.<\/p>\n

She ordered government officials to return the relief items to Kampala before demanding that the supplier brings better ones.<\/p>\n

When contacted yesterday, Mr Julius Mucunguzi, the OPM spokesperson, said the UNBS proposal had already been implemented following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur relief food has always been verified since the Covid time when some of it was found unsafe. However, ask them whether they have enough capacity to carry out the verification process of these foods since there were long queues during Covid time at their offices in Nakawa awaiting clearance,\u201d Mr Mucunguzi said.<\/p>\n

UNBS is a government parastatal responsible for adopting and applying standards for both imported and domestically manufactured products in the Ugandan market.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Uganda. Food dispatched to disaster-stricken areas and distributed to schools will be verified to establish whether it meets health standards, the executive director of the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has said. Mr Livingstone Ebiru, said the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) will seek approval from them before dispatching the food. 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