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    "id": 1037927,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1037927/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Endebess, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I stand to support this Procedural Motion. I have a Private Members' Bill, the Kenya Food and Drug Authority Bill, that has been here for the last two years. It is an important Bill. When you look at the news today in the USA, Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine approvals are given by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In the European Union, the approval is given by the European Regulatory Authority. As we speak, in Kenya, we do not have an Authority that can approve any vaccine trial. We can only seek authority from the Kenyatta National Hospital Ethics Committee, and it is not the way other jurisdictions are doing things. My Bill speaks to many issues. It speaks to approval of drugs in the market, pharmacology, vigilance, new drugs in the market and their safety. Nobody looks at the amount of pesticides in the foods that we consume and we keep complaining of rising cases of cancer and other non-communicable diseases. It is time that some of these Bills go into record that this House passed something that is for monumental contribution for this country and generations to come. It is not just a Bill."
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