High pesticide residue levels compromise Kenya’s right to safe food, lobby groups voice

KENYA – Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, a German non-governmental organization (NGO), is calling for a ban on the importation of toxic pesticides outlawed in other countries yet still finding their way to Kenya. According to the organization, which operates in more than 30 countries, figures show that one or more active chemicals in 76 percent of the total volume of pesticides used in…

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PCPB set to kick off risk analysis of pesticides sold in Kenya

KENYA – The Pest Control Products Board (PCPB), an agency that regulates the importation and exportation, manufacture, registration, distribution and use of pesticides in the country, has announced it will conduct a risk analysis of pesticides sold in Kenya, following a directive from a parliamentary committee. The committee had issued a report on a 2019 petition by the Biodiversity and…

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