The National Monitoring Forum (NMF), a non-governmental organisation, will host an imbizo today in Polokwane to address the recent rise in food-borne illness cases in Limpopo.
The forum has invited government officials and food distributors to participate in discussions aimed at finding solutions to the issue.
Last month, one child died and several others were hospitalised across Limpopo after reportedly consuming tainted food.
National Monitoring Forum spokesperson Alex Makhura says, “We want the government to remove all those sweets that are unwanted in spaza shops. Have joint operations at all cash and carries so that they can remove it because if they cannot remove these unwanted items at cash and carries, automatically spaza shops will go and buy these sweets from them.”
Meanwhile, the National Federated Chamber of Commerce in the Free State has criticised the slow implementation of the province’s Integrated Business Support, Licensing and Regulation Act which was signed into law in April.
The chamber says seven months after the Act was signed, there hasn’t been much movement. The Act essentially criminalises the sale of fake goods by providing a regulatory framework where every company that does business in the province, should be licensed.
Fake Goods | Business calls for law enforcement
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