{"id":135914,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/135914/?format=json","text_counter":157,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dr. Gesami","speaker_title":"The Assistant Minister for Public Health and Sanitation","speaker":{"id":19,"legal_name":"James Ondicho Gesami","slug":"james-gesami"},"content":"Mr. Speaker, Sir, in this country, the plastic container manufacturers for food packaging use lead and cadmium as stabilizers for their final products, but that must conform to our county’s standards; that is the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) 1667 of 2001. For plastics in contact with food and drinking water, the maximum level of lead is 0.1 per cent or 10milligrams per kilogram."}