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    "id": 1278468,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Endebess, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "One of the biggest challenges in this country is how to bring all these bodies together. How do you bring public health and agriculture together to make sure that the food we eat or sell meets the required standards? At one stage, we were debating whether to adopt international standards or the national standards when it comes to food. It was a very heated debate. At last, we agreed that Kenya should adopt international standards. If we have to go to the market, then we have to use standards that are agreeable internationally. Other countries’ standards might differ, but we must go with international standards. If we are going to export food, then it must meet international standards. We are talking about avocados, maize, tea, coffee, and many other foods which we might sell to other regions. We are also talking about animal feeds. Once we have this Food and Feed Safety Coordination Controller, then we expect that he or she will bring all the public institutions together to ensure that food and feeds meet the required standards. The Leader of the Majority Party mentioned that at times when you travel by road, you see uncovered lorries carrying vegetables. All the dust falls on the vegetables. With the passage of this Bill, that will be a thing of the past. At times you walk along the road and you see people involved in meat business carrying raw meat on their backs. These are things that should be done away with. I remember a time when motorcycles and bicycles were being used to deliver food to some institutions. I do not want to say it is Parliament, but when we were in the Members’ Services and Facilities Committee meeting, we saw a motorcycle bringing food for Members to eat in Parliament. These are things that should be done away with. With the Food and Feed Safety Controller in place, we expect them to come up with regulations. Some of those regulations are best enforced through self-regulation, whereby as an individual involved in food and feed safety, you must make sure that the food you are going to give to somebody else to eat is fit for your own consumption, not just for business. It must be safe food that is not harmful to anybody else. Our Constitution in Articles 43(1)(d) and 46(1)(d) provides that the food that we serve must be safe, good, and healthy for the person who is going to consume it. With those few remarks, I second."
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