TECHNICAL MEETING OF SERVICES OPERATING AT BORDER LEVEL AND EXPERTS FROM SECTORAL MINISTRIES TO ENFORCE GOVERNMENT MEASURES PROHIBITING THE ENTRY INTO THE DRC OF 8 BRANDS OF CORN FLOUR FROM ZAMBIA CONT
To enforce the Government's measures prohibiting the entry into the national territory of 8 brands of flour contaminated with aflatoxin in Zambia, notably Pembe Roller Meal Number Three Meal,
Africa Milling, Roller Meal and Breakfast, Farm Supet Dog Meal, Continental Milling, Shabco Milling, Girad Milling, Busu Milling and Star Milling including the prohibition of their consumption, marketing and distribution;
experts from the Ministries concerned including agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock, National Economy, Public Health and Foreign Trade but also representatives of the Congolese Control Office-OCC, the Congolese National Police, the Congolese Business Federation-FEC and the association of consumers of food products, all members of the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Commission-
SPS met this Monday with the Secretary General for Foreign Trade, Jules Muilu Mbo, President of this structure.
It was decided at the end of this strategic meeting that the Congolese Control Office-OCC will take samples of corn flour from markets and warehouses in the Greater Katanga area to provide further reassurance, with the contribution of a certified laboratory based in Haut-Katanga.
Also
new strategies to strengthen border control and to put an end to the Bilanga phenomenon at Kasumbalesa and elsewhere will be submitted to the Government in the following hours, said the Secretary General for Foreign Trade, Jules Muilu Mbo.
Let us recall that the Minister of Foreign Trade, Julien Paluku Kahongya, once again reiterates his call for compliance with regulations on the movement of goods and invites the Congolese population to ban fraud in all its forms in order to preserve the nation from the tragedies that result from it.
