Food manufacturing firms have been urged to embrace sustainable operations.
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said that access to safe and nutritional food is key to good health.
The CS was speaking during the launch of a sustainability report by Bio Foods Products Ltd in Nairobi on Monday.
“It is refreshing to see local manufacturers such as yourself putting sustainability at the core of their operations,” he said.
He said contaminated food causes more than 200 diseases, from diarrhoea to cancers. “It is not often that we get an organisation that can sacrifice profits in the altar for a good product. The average organisation will that say ‘I will take the profit’,” said Mr Kagwe. Read more…
