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Quick Guide to KS 1758-2:2016

Quick Guide to KS 1758-2:2016

Horticulture Code of Practice – Part 2: Fruits and Vegetables A code of practice is a set of written rules which explains how people working in a particular sector should carry out their activities.  It provides for uniformity in certain…

Assured Produce Scheme

Assured Produce Scheme

The 2018 World Environmental Health Day was marked with the Theme “Global food safety and sustainability” which emphasized support the provision of more safe food, to make use of precious water and nutrient resources, and for communities to increasingly value…

Tips to Improve Food Safety

Tips to Improve Food Safety

As part of unpacking what it means to have safe affordable food, we have put together a few tips for consumers, producers, processors, distributors and marketers of fresh produce so as to ensure they keep food safe for consumption.  Download…

March to Food Safety

March to Food Safety

Food and nutrition security for all Kenyans starts with having safe affordable food! Starting this July we invite you to join the March to Food Safety Campaign where we unpack what it means to have safe affordable food.  We are…

Post-Harvest Innovations for improved Food Security

Post-Harvest Innovations for improved Food Security

The concluded 1st All Africa Post Harvest Congress and Exhibition event, held in Nairobi, Kenya on the 28th to 31st March, which focused on food security, with the aim of sustainable solutions for Africa. Having taken place against a backdrop of…

Food Security in  Kenya

Food Security in Kenya

Achieving food security goes beyond simply having enough food to eat.  The quality, affordability and accessibility of available food are critical elements of food security.  The reality is that greater emphasis has been placed on food availability at the expense…

SunCulture’s IDEA

SunCulture’s IDEA

New technologies follow a learning curve and decrease in price over time. Early cell phones were massive and expensive, but now nearly a billion Africans own one. The price of solar modules have fallen by 150 times in the past…

New EU MRLs for the Pesticide Chlorpyrifos

New EU MRLs for the Pesticide Chlorpyrifos

The EU published Regulation 60/2016 setting new EU MRLs for chlorpyrifos.  This sets new lower EU MRLs for several fruits and vegetables. Please see MRLS in regulation attached. We have been informed of a potential problem in relation to the…