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According to Section 58 of the Public Health Act 1981: "No person shall sell or expose for sale... any food for human consumption in a tainted, adulterated, diseased or unwholesome state, or which is unfit for human consumption".

OK, I suspect nobody will be surprised by that.  It's the sort of rule that every country has, except perhaps North Korea where they're so poor and starving that they'd eat anything, probably even their football team.  It's a perfectly reasonable rule that makes it illegal to sell, or just as importantly, "expose for sale" food that's rotten or even just "unwholesome" which my dictionary defines as "not conducive to health or moral well-being".

Editor's Comment
Batswana need to do better to stop FMD

It is a clear signal that the government’s purse is empty and that our own behaviour has left veterinary officials fighting with one hand tied behind their backs. We have been here before. During COVID-19, many of us thought we knew better. We ignored simple rules, we carried on as if the danger was someone else’s problem, and the virus took lives and left our economy on its knees. We are still broke from that experience. Yet now, with FMD...

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