Some arrested butchers who were found using a concoction of chemicals to preserve their meat.

Kampala capital city authority has tasked the national drug authority to restrict purchase of certain chemicals on the market.

This is after the authority closed down several butcheries in the city center found using unnamed chemicals that reportedly chase away flies.

Speaking during a council meeting today, the Authority’s acting director public health Dr Daniel Okello said they have established that the impounded chemicals were pesticides which also contaminated the meat.

He argues that such chemicals should not be accessed by everyone since they are harmful to human lives tasking the drug authority to restrict their purchase.

Dr Okello says investigations to establish whether formalin was being used to preserve meat are ongoing

KCCA Public Health teams conducted operations in Kampala Markets where  butcheries were closed off over poor sanitation & selling stale meat which is unfit for public consumption

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