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    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I rise to support this Bill. This is an extremely important Bill for health. I support it because its object is to coordinate all public institutions involved in control of food and feed safety. It is important that we control food and feed safety. Food is the most important social determinant of health. In terms of health, we are what we eat. Food can result in direct illness from infectious and communicable diseases such as typhoid, bacillary dysentery, cholera, and all sorts of illnesses. We can also have non-communicable diseases arising from the food we eat, starting from problems of lack of vitamins that are common things, particularly in children, to serious diseases such as diabetes, hypertension arising from obesity, and stroke arising from having a lot of cholesterol in our body systems. These are all important. We can also have chronic illnesses and poisoning in food. You can have contaminated fish. There have been parts of the world with serious contamination of fish due to heavy poisoning by metals like mercury. That can occur even here, seeing how our environment is being managed. People who get fish need to do something about it. You can have acute poisoning from the food that you eat. We often talk about food poisoning and we think that somebody put poison in food. In fact, if food has some bacteria, it will cause acute illness called food poisoning. For some, if you take milk, you can collapse immediately because it is contaminated depending on how milk is prepared. Some people put some things even as bad as melamine to make milk look thicker and richer. We need to look at all those things. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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