{"id":2892,"date":"2019-06-03T12:39:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T12:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:19","slug":"how-farmers-compromise-food-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/03\/how-farmers-compromise-food-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"How Farmers Compromise Food Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By JENIFFER GITHINJI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Food safety refers to the\nproduction, handling, preparation and storage of foodstuffs in ways that best\nreduce the risk of diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dangers of consuming unsafe food\nhave been demonstrated in the rise of food-borne diseases such as cholera.\nSafety of food is compromised at all stages, from input supplies, production,\npost-harvest handling and preparation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most farmers\ndon\u2019t consider the source of inputs they use to produce food. For example, a\nmajority use unclean water for irrigation leading to introduction of heavy\nmetals and microbial pathogens into crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, farmers\nsource manure directly from their livestock section or buy from neighbors and\napply on the crops. Manure that is not well-decomposed is a health hazard if\napplied to crop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, some\nfarmers use chemical fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides and fungicides without\nfollowing the manufacturer\u2019s recommendation or having clear information about\nthe active ingredients, disposal or even the pre-harvest interval (PHI).<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/business\/seedsofgold\/How-farmers-compromise-food-safety\/2301238-5140786-3hxqcfz\/index.html\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JENIFFER GITHINJI Food safety refers to the production, handling, preparation and storage of foodstuffs in ways that best reduce the risk of diseases. Dangers of consuming unsafe food have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}