Food poisoning on rise

HIDDEN CAUSE: CALL TO PROBE SUPPLIERS FOR PUPIL FEEDING SCHEME

- Masoka Dube

The government is still failing to control the food poisoning crisis, which has been ongoing for some years.

Over the past two years, food poisoning cases have increased in schools throughout the country.

The government banned vendors operating near schools and instructed children not to buy from nearby spaza shops.

But food poisoning incidents are continuing. Now, the experts are citing the National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) as the cause.

Recently, about 50 pupils from Mahuntsi Secondary School in Malamulele, Limpopo, were hospitalized after exhibiting symptoms of food poisoning.