LETTER: Food Safety Agency must be established now
Such an agency, which was promised by the president, can prevent or combat many public health risks
12 May 2021 - 13:55
When President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed parliament in June 2018 on the deadly listeriosis outbreak that had killed nearly 200 people, he clearly expected a food safety agency to be established in the near future.
He said the government had put in place a process to establish a food safety agency and the regulatory framework to ensure the requisite high levels of health and safety. This work would have been completed in conjunction with the parliamentary processes that had been put in place to bring the new statutory agency into existence...
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