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"speaker_name": "Dr Andrew Mwihia Karanja",
"speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Livestock Development",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First of all, we have been seized of this issue for a long time, and it has been discussed many times in various committees and on 26th August, a comprehensive Report was tabled in the Committee on Implementation. Regarding the question on the status of the recommendations of the National Assembly’s Departmental Committee on Health, several issues were raised there, as Hon. Gladys Boss is raising. I will go through them in order to indicate what the Ministry has done on each particular issue. The Public Petition No. 70 of 2019 had seven recommendations that had been addressed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development. One of the issues was the formulation of regulations on distribution and retailing of pesticides. Our response is that the Ministry has already gazetted the Pest Control Products Inspection and Certification Regulations of 2024 on 18th June 2024. The regulation sets the requirements for certification of distributors and retailing of pest control products. Those regulations are the ones which were"
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