Plastics in your table salt
Health & Science - By
Gatonye Gathura | February 1st 2021 at 06:00:00 GMT +0300
Some of the table salt sold in Kenya is contaminated with tiny plastic particles, which may be a health risk to consumers.
Salt bought from open markets and supermarkets in eight African countries, including Kenya, was tested, and found to contain plastic particles.
“It is obvious that microplastics contamination in table salts should be of a major public health concern,” said Fadare Oluniyi of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and chief investigator in the study.
The researchers collected samples of different brands of commonly consumed commercial table salts from Kenya, Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Uganda. All the samples, the report in an ahead of the print issue of Marine Pollution Bulletin states, were contaminated with plastic particles, some not visible to the naked eye.
Inflation Rate For January Up To 5.7 Percent
By Soko Directory Team / Published February 1, 2021 | 9:52 am KEY POINTS
1.3% increase in the Food and Non-Alcoholic Drinks Index, contributed by the increase in prices of cooking oil, white bread, and cabbages by 10.4%, 6.6%, and 3.4%
The y/y inflation for the month of January 2021 increased to 5.7n percent from the 5.6 percent recorded in December 2020 according to stats released by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS).
There was a 1.3 percent increase in the Food and Non-Alcoholic Drinks Index, mainly contributed by the increase in prices of cooking oil (salad), white bread, and cabbages by 10.4, 6.6, and 3.4 percent, respectively, among other food items.
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Kenya in first recession since at least 2000
As measures introduced by the East African state to slow the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic continued to hurt output.
By Helen Nyambura and David Herbling, Bloomberg
28 Jan 2021 10:36
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Kenya slid into a recession for the first time in at least two decades in the third quarter of 2020 as measures introduced by the East African state to slow the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic continued to hurt output.
Gross domestic product in East Africaâs biggest economy fell 1.1% compared with a year earlier, after shrinking a revised 5.5% in the second quarter, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics said Thursday by email. The outcome matched median of three economistsâ estimates in a Bloomberg survey.