Urgent need for monitoring of food suppliers
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
To be specific, a total of 26 students were admitted at Mahalapye Primary Hospital with signs of food poisoning after they ate rape and started vomiting and showing signs of diarrhoea when they got home. Unconfirmed reports indicate that there were other schools that experienced the same problem.
Rape is one of the new items that were introduced in the new school menu. Most of the food items are procured from local producers as a way of empowering them. However, it is unfortunate that any person would be so careless to release recently sprayed vegetables to the consumer, especially schools to feed students.
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