This archive report was first published on 29 August 2019.
Nairobi County has launched a crackdown on unlicensed food vendors, with 12 vendors arrested in the past week.
City Health and Inspectorate officers have been conducting daily inspections of food outlets in the city, following a directive from City Hall to re-apply for inspection.
According to Nairobi County Health executive Mohamed Dagane, all food vendors, eateries, and other food outlets operating in the county were given two weeks to re-apply for inspection.
"No one will operate or sell food without being inspected," Dagane said. "We made this resolve and we want to effect it to the latter to avoid any health problems now and in the future," he added.
The crackdown comes after the Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) raised concerns about the county government's failure to test public food handlers in the capital for almost a year, despite collecting the requisite fees.
Robert Juma, KAM regional co-ordinator for Nairobi, said that no public food handler had been issued with a certificate of good health for almost a year, as the tests are rarely done by the county's public health officers.
Thursday, August 29, 2019
