The Zambia Compulsory Standard Agency (ZCSA) wishes to assure all consumers and trading outlets that all the Mealie Meal brands currently being supplied on the market are safe for human consumption.
ZCSA, which is responsible for regulating the production and supply of Mealie Meal, is urging the public not to panic over recent public concerns regarding the safety of Mealie Meal as there are effective food safety and quality control systems to protect consumers.
The Agency working with other state institutions, has implemented adequate measures to safeguard the health and safety of consumers following the detection of elevated aflatoxin levels in some batches of Mealie Meal and dog food.
We wish to place it record that the affected batches of Mealie Meal which were identified and withdrawn from the market and factories have since been destroyed in line with the Section 16(4)(b) of the Compulsory Standards Act.
ZCSA wishes to emphasize that the issue of non-compliance on the levels of aflatoxins was specific to the identified Mealie Meal batches referred to above. Further,consumers are advised that all brands currently on the market have been certified safe including brands that had the affected batches withdrawn from the market and destroyed.
ZCSA remains committed to ensuring that only safe products are supplied to consumers.
The Agency will continue conducting routine factory inspections aimed at ensuring that products are tested before being supplied on the market and market surveillance inspections countrywide for continued compliance to protect the health and safety of consumers.
ZCSA, a statutory body under the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry, was established by the Compulsory Standards Act No. 3 of 2017 to administer, maintain and ensure compliance with Compulsory Standards for the purpose of public safety and health, consumer and environmental protection.
Issued by: ORIGINAL COPY SIGNED
GERALD CHIZINGA | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Zambia Compulsory Standards Agency
This country is becoming worse by hour. Have these chaps examined all the bags in every section of our country?
@Vu
Kutumpa uko iwe naiwe. Why should someone from Lusaka come to you there to check if that fish you bought today has fly eggs on?
Afloxitoxin stuff has always been there, just like dry maggots in dry fish. Just enjoy your nshima, there is no need to demolish milling companies like you are doing.
@Nostradamus uwa tumpa niwe who assumes that all mealie meal is safe…when it’s discovered that someone has died because poisoned nshima you start giving childish explanations
You are only concentrating on mealie meal but the same maize has been used in different products like beer, chibuku, maize products such as baby porridge, maheu, super shake etc etc. Who is checking on all of these?
Indeed things are falling apart …..
Unfortunately freedom of speech is being erroded
Leaving only one person who can say what he wants without fear as they wouldnt dare bring him in .
This is the worst Govt so far. We the people of Zambia are partly to blame for having fallen prey to Hakainde’s cheap lies. Our colleagues in the Southern province have probably learnt a lesson or two that tribe is not the issue but an individual’s exposition and ability to lead. Hakainde is a 360 degrees wrong project for Zambia. Those who have a memory will recall that this is the only Govt that inaugurates incomplete Toilets, boreholes, sells Govt assets, imports substandard maize grain after selling our local stocks, has no idea whatsoever how to run an economy except self praise. Hakainde only believes that development will come from outside of our borders. Scandal after scandal etc.