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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": "recommended by that Committee, and we have already done the gazettement. So that action has been taken. The other one was the analysis of the product in the Kenyan market. We were requested to analyse the pesticide products in the Kenyan market. The response is that 31 active ingredients and associated end-use products have been reviewed and we have provided in Annex 4 of our report details of all pesticides which have been analysed, and where all the active ingredients were analysed as requested by the Committee. The development of Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) Strategy is also ongoing in partnership with the East African Community. This is not a one-nation affair. We are liaising with our East African Community member States because some of those pesticides are used across the East African Community. In the last three years, 79 pest control products have also been voluntarily withdrawn by litigants for various reasons. The third issue was on funding. It was noted that in order for the Pest Control Products Board (PCPB) to do a good job, it had to have adequate funding. The PCPB had been under- funded until the current financial year when funding was enhanced, and we welcome that. The low funding caused the delays in reviewing the active ingredients in the petition and review of the regulations in the PCPB. However, the development and review of regulations require public participation and also conduct of regulatory impact assessments which requires a lot of resources, and you will agree with me on that. The funding needs to be enhanced so that the Board can do its work. From this year, we have seen increased funding for PCPB and we are hoping that it will do a better job in terms of making sure that it does what it was requested to do. The other issue which was raised is the annual publication of pest control products that have been withdrawn or banned. I can report that PCPB normally publishes a list of withdrawals and a list of withdrawn active ingredients and decisions. It also publishes on its website a list of banned products, a list of registered products and a list of restricted products. We have provided in Annex 5 of our Report some of the products which have been withdrawn or restricted and the ones which have been banned. Actually, Annex 5 is on banned products in Kenya. So, Hon. Members, there are 45 of them which have been banned in Kenya, including herbicides, insecticides and other products, as listed there. I do not have to go through the whole list of banned products since it is provided as requested. We were requested to amend to the Pest Control Act. I want to report that the Cabinet Memo on the Pest Control Products Bill is in the National Treasury awaiting concurrence; after which it will be submitted to the Cabinet for approval."
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