LATEST TESTS CONFIRM ALDEHYDES IN ZAMBEEF MEAT

TESTS conducted in South Africa on Zambeef meat products have confirmed the presence the harmful substance, aromatic aldehydes, Health Minister Joseph Kasonde has told Parliament today.

Further contamination of some imported meat products in local outlets had also been confirmed.

Dr Kasonde said Zambeef will face appropriate action as prescribed by the law, but did not state the exact punitive action that will be mooted.

D Kasonde said his ministry was on increased alert following the shocking discovery regarding Zambeef contaminated meat last month.

Dr Kasonde said this in Parliament yesterday when he presented an updated ministerial statement on the findings of the investigations on Zambeef imported meat products.

“The findings from further laboratory analysis undertaken in South Africa have confirmed the presence of formaldehydes in meat samples taken from different batches and outlets of Zambeef.

“Following up on the results of the investigation, my Ministry will take appropriate action on this matter as prescribed by the existing laws in order to ensure adherence to food safety standards in the country,” Dr Kasonde said.

Aromatic aldehydes are normally used as a preservative including in embalming of corpses and industrial purposes.

He said monitoring of food products by inspection and testing of samples on importation and local storage and sales points had proved effective as a way to protect the public from consuming contaminated material.

“The affected meat products are the interiors and hooves which are mainly imported and it is therefore important that we establish the point of contamination, a task we have vigorously embarked on,” he said.

Dr Kasonde said Zambeef had abrogated the Public Health Act Cap 295 of the laws of Zambia Meat, abattoir and butcheries regulations and the abattoir and transport of meat regulations and the Food and Drugs Act Cap 303.

“Formaldehyde (aromatic aldehydes) is in a group of aldehydes and is a compound mainly used in embalming corpses for preservation and is also used in industrial activities. Formaldehyde is not listed among the preservatives in our Food and Drugs Act because of its harmful nature,” he said.

He warned that vending in fresh meat and fish products on the streets could also increase the possibility of contamination, therefore, his Ministry with the involvement of the local authorities would intensify routine monitoring of food and strengthen surveillance not only in points of entry but also within the country.

This was for the sole purpose of ensuring food safety and guarantee of quality of life of the people.

He said normal business would be resumed by various meat suppliers, with the assurance to the public that the intensified surveillance system would remain in effect.

Dr Kasonde informed the House that the 13 trucks containing imported fresh fish whose results were negative for aromatic ketones and aldehydes, had since been released for the owners to conduct business-as-usual as per standard surveillance guidelines.

He said in carrying out the investigations, the Ministry of Health had worked in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock and other relevant ministries to facilitate for the smooth investigation process.

The Ministry of Health was also monitoring the importation of fish into the country.

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What is the Definition of ‘Good Sex’?

“Guess what? My naughty friend whispered to me one evening on our way home from work. “I found an app that contains over four hundred sexual positions”.

“Really” I whispered back as I angled closer to her.

As you can expect, we proceeded to spend our forty minutes journey curiously examining the app, flicking from one position to another (the images so hot they could burn your eyeballs), giggling like school girls all the way. We analysed the merits of each one as we tried to visualize ourselves in the positions with our other half. Of course we had to be mindful of the many eyes and ears around us on the London underground before we made the headlines on BBC!

By the end of our ‘look-see’ my eyes were popping out-maybe a little crazily but who cared? I had been thoroughly schooled by this app. Don’t ask for specifics and I won’t tell you but my head was full! Who uses this stuff? I questioned myself silently. Surely not normal people?

Well for our own peace of mind, we decided that what we had just seen was of no relevance to us. In fact, it was better suited to gymnasts (correct ones o), weight watchers and other professionals- if you understand what I mean.

Many weeks passed after the phone app incident and I still had questions. I could have looked on the internet but I didn’t want to get caught sneakily asking Google about Sex!  And I couldn’t bring it up with my naughty friend because I knew she would only give me naughty answers accompanied with funny winks. So after further thought, I asked my older friend from church who had been married for a few years what she thought was the right amount of adventure to have with sex. Ladies and gentlemen, her answer was nothing like I expected.

Without much ado, she told-no preached to me about God’s plan for sex-with bible quotes. She told me how enjoying it too much was a sin or led to sin (I didn’t quite grasp that bit) and how I should stick to having sex for the main purpose of child bearing. After all, the Bible said nothing about enjoyment when it mentioned people getting married or having children. The one that boggled my mind was when she causally mentioned that only spoilt girls enjoy it anyway so I should just have enough of it to keep my husband happy because every strong marriage needs enough sex.  At this point I hastily ended the conversation before she damaged me completely. Then I promised myself that I will forget everything she said once I wrote about it.

In retrospect, I understand my friend’s view point. In Africa especially, no one talks openly about sex. It is like the CIA or FBI’s classified secrets. It is something we think or know about but dare not admit to. As we grow older, some of us get married and have children of our own, yet many of our questions are still unanswered but we choose to suffer on instead of braving the bewilderment that will greet you if you risked asking the ‘grown ups’. I can just picture the shock in my mother’s eyes if I asked her the question(s) I would flippantly ask my friends.

I hope that our generation will raise their children differently. A little openness will ensure our children feel safe enough to talk to us plus it will reduce the awkwardness that many adults feel about sex even when they are married but that is a story for another day.

For today, let’s simply discuss, as honestly as possible, what it means to have ‘good sex’ as my favourite app promised we would do once we mastered its many styles.

Dear readers, is there good and bad sex? How do you measure whether it is good or bad? To whom or where will you go if you had unanswered questions or you and your partner were not working magic yet?

Also we would love to hear what the different holy books say or don’t say about the act of lovemaking.

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SLAP DEE FINALLY DOING A SONG WITH LONG TIME COLLABORATOR RAYDO

Yesterday lusaka rapper posted on his facebook page letting fans know he is finally doing a song on a raydo beat
in the recent past slap and ray have had beef after raydo left XYZ to form his own imprint

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Monday near Lusaka, Zambia

So Raydo called me this morning....he says he got a tough beat for me for the album! Since am no trip I told him amo swing by the studio later on today but first I had to check with the Fam. 3000 likes on this en I drop the song this Friday!

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Teenager, 17, rapes his 4-year-old sister while babysitting after watching online Porn

A teenage boy who sexually abused his little sister while babysitting had been watching online porn, a court has heard.
The 17-year-old repeatedly seriously abused the four-year-old child until the victim eventually told their mother what he had been doing.

She reported her son to the police and when interviewed the boy, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, admitted his behaviour had been 'disgusting and loathsome'.

Sentencing the youth, who is now 18, to three and a half years detention Judge Mark Brown described him as an intelligent young man who had known what he was doing was wrong.

He said: 'I am told you had been watching pornographic films.

'It is clear from what you said to police that you knew you had abused your sister and you appreciated that what you had done to her was not only disgusting but also loathsome but despite that knowledge you carried on and continued to treat her in that way.'

He said that the youth had treated her in a 'most appalling and dreadful fashion' because he had been sexually aroused.

The defendant had pleaded guilty to attempted rape and five offences of sexual assault.

Gerald Baxter, prosecuting, told Liverpool Crown Court today that the offences took place over a four month period last year and the offences were specimen charges.

Judge Brown said that fortunately the victim did not seem to have been adversely affected by the abuse and had 'simply shrugged it off and was getting on with her life'.

He said that the boy, who had been bullied at school, largely because of his weight, was socially isolated.

Following the death of his father he had become even less outgoing and when he was 16 was convicted of indecent exposure.

The judge said he accepted he was genuinely remorseful and his mother and family are continuing to support him.

He ordered him to sign the Sex Offenders Register for life, disqualified him from working with children and imposed an indefinite Sexual Offences Prevention Order preventing unsupervised contact with children.

Julian Linskill, defending, said that there had been an element of sexual experimentation involved in the offences.

He urged the judge not to send the youth to custody and instead put him on a sex offender rehabilitation course.

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China seizes 20 tonnes of out-of-date meat including chicken feet 46 YEARS past sell-by-date

A police raid of an illegal food store in southern China has exposed tonnes of rancid, decades-old chicken feet being 'processed' to be sold to unassuming customers.

The decaying feet, some dating back to 1967, were being 'cleaned up', plumped up and whitened at the 'foul-smelling' plant using bleach and other chemicals, before being prepared for sale.
Police, who raided the criminal operation in May, said they also found beef tripe, cartilage and other out-of-date animal organs - all of which had been smuggled across the border from neighbouring Vietnam. In total 20 tonnes of illegal meat was seized.

According to local media, the gang, based in Nanning, the capital city of south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, was able to make up to 16,000 yuan (£1,750) profit on every tonne of the putrid meat, by injecting it with chemicals, increasing its weight by 50 per cent.

Li Jianmin, from the local Public Security Bureau, told Xinhua news agency, quoted by the South China Morning Post: 'The entire processing facility had a fishy and foul smell. You just couldn't stand it after one or two minutes.'
The stomach-churning finding is not the first to be exposed in the area.
Police in Guangxi, along China's border with Vietnam, have stepped up anti-smuggling operations over the last year and have raided seven illegal food processors.

  

According to local police, quoted in The People's Daily, there were huge profits to be made from smuggling foods considered waste in other countries into China, where they are thought of as delicacies.

Criminal gangs have been difficult to catch, however, because illegal meats are often hidden among other produce such as fruit and vegetables, and lorry drivers are often bribed to deny any knowledge of it.

Among the seized meats over the last 12 months, police have found hundreds of bears' paws - another bizarre food sought after by Chinese chefs.

Two raids in recent months have uncovered first 231 bear paws in an attempted smuggling case from Mongolia, and more recently 141 bear paws were seized. Two Russians were arrested in Inner Mongolia in connection with the first case, which valued the paws at 2.8 million yuan (£306,000).
According to local media, smuggling remains a bone of contention for both China and its southern neighbour.

The two countries failed to come to an agreement on cross-border trade last month during Vietnamese president Truong Tan Sang's state visit to China, where he met with his counterpart Xi Jiping.
Media reports from both countries, which have been involved in rising tensions over territories in the South China Sea, lay the blame on the their respective governments for illegal foods entering their markets.
Vietnamese press claim chicken, sturgeon, fruit and vegetables from China have been undercutting local market prices. While illegal out-of-date produce is creating a black market in China.

Chicken feet and bear feet have both been sized in police raids on plants in southern China after a police crack down on smuggling illegal and out-of-date foods

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Jay-Z Details Pre-"Magna Carta Holy Grail" Timbaland Fallout

Jay-Z speaks on Timbaland's past inability to "put ego aside" while the pair worked on "The Blueprint 3."

For years, Virginia producer Timbaland and Brooklyn emcee Jay-Z worked together to craft numerous records that would later be featured on Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter, The Black Album, and more. And with Tim’s extensive work on the newly-released Magna Carta Holy Grail, it came as a surprise to many when it was revealed that the two artists had previously parted ways musically.

At the top of the month, Timbaland revealed the news and credited his past falling out with the Magna Carta Holy Grail rapper to “disagreements” and “petty stuff.” And during a recent interview with BBC Radio 1, Jay-Z shared his thoughts on the pairs past indifferences.

According to Jay-Z, his issues with Timbaland arose shortly after The Blueprint 3 was released and were primarily due to Tim’s demeanor.

“He was still on Blueprint 3, but the fallout happened at the end of that album. It really happened—the way the album happened and a couple of songs was getting leaked, that was his songs. And it was like that whole thing was just like it just ruined the whole process,” Jay-Z revealed. “I wanted him and Kanye to produce, and Kanye who was the executive producer of Blueprint was like ‘Yo, let’s get Tim. Let’s bring Tim in.’ We were all inviting of him and he just wasn’t accepting of the process. And it seemed like it was more about him than the actual album.”

Jay-Z says the producer did reemerge following their fallout and returned with a more mature outlook, one that helped in easing any past tensions.

Timbaland later went on to produce a majority of the songs featured on Magna Carta Holy Grailincluding “La Familia” and the Justin Timberlake-assisted “Holy Grail.”

“When you go in and make an album there’s not—you have to put all ego aside,” said Jay-Z. “I’m putting ego aside. Everyone has to put ego aside for the sake of the project. And he was accepting of that. That was almost like the last straw type of thing. We just went our separate ways. After those concerts he came back, I saw the new Timbaland. He had this maturity and this growth and I was like, ‘Oh okay. This is gonna work out.’”

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2 children die in high speed chase of ‘cheating’ husband

A HIGH speed chase of a suspected cheating husband on Friday night ended tragically when a Lusaka wife lost control of her vehicle and overturned, resulting in the death of her two children. Zambia Police deputy public relations officer Charity Munganga-Chanda confirmed the accident which happened at 20:30 hours at the junction of Godfrey Chitalu and Leopards Hill roads. She said the two children died on the spot while the woman and two others were critically injured and were admitted to the University Teaching Hospital. “The vehicle involved was a Suzuki Grand Vitara registration number ALC 2482. The person who was driving the vehicle was Makosana Dlamini Hazele. There were four other passengers; her two children Miselo, 8, Jolezya, 12, and her other relatives Frank Hazele, 25 and Nokonda Dlamini, 15,” Munganga-Chanda said. “The accident happened because the lady was speeding as she was chasing her husband whom she suspected was with his girlfriend. She was driving at high speed, she lost control and the vehicle overturned. Her two children are in the University Teaching Hospital mortuary and the vehicle is currently packed at Woodlands police.” UTH public relations manager Mwenya Mulenga said the three that were admitted were stable and were responding to treatment. - See more at: http://www.ukzambians.co.uk/home/2013/07/01/2-children-die-in-high-speed-chase-of-cheating-husband/#sthash.WbLCVKaC.dpuf

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Zambia Police Spokesperson Elizabeth Kanjela at her Kitchen party over the weekend in Lusaka

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TB Joshua responds To Ghanaian Media, Denies Predicting Zambia Win over Ghana

Nigerian pastor TB Joshua says he has stopped releasing prophecies related to the outcome of football matches insisting he did not predict that Zambia would defeat Ghana 2-1 in the final 2014 World Cup Group D match in Kumasi.

The controversial preacher-man fired a warning at the Ghanaian media claiming they falsely reporting new on football predictions he had not made.

The revelation has come as a massive confidence boost for some Ghanaian fans who believe in the predictions of the Nigerian pastor as they now sense victory over Chipolopolo in Kumasi to reach the final phase of the qualifiers.

In an angry riposte directed at the Ghanaian media, the preacher-man lashed out at claims in Ghanaian media circles that he has predicted a Chipolopolo win over the Black Stars in the final Group D match in September.

Some Ghanaian media outlets reported that TB Joshua has predicted a Zambian victory over Ghana in Kumasi which has forced the ‘man of God’ to come out with s denial.

The reports that Joshua had predicted a Zambian win over Ghana drew wild condemnation from Black Stars fans with many describing him as ‘a fake man of God’ while angrily rejecting his prediction.

The controversial preacher-man, who draws praise and condemnation in  similar measure, says the false reports about his prediction has forced him to stop predicting the outcome of matches.

“Prophet T.B. Joshua has publicly stated that he has stopped releasing prophecies related to the outcome of football matches,” a statement on the official Facebook page of the popular Nigerian pastor read.

“The worst thing that you can do to a man of God is to lie but there are many lies on Ghanaian websites.

“This is another lie going around Ghana websites that I prophesied that the Black Stars would lose 2-1 against Zambia in 2014 world Cup Group decider in September.

The Nigerian preacher-man was clearly unhappy about several rumours of the results of matches he was said to have predicted.

Most of the results of the matches did not come true which resulted in some accusing TB Joshua of making false predictions.

But the Nigerian preacher-man wondered why the Ghanaian media would continue to spread false rumours of his supposed predictions.

“Why do you enjoy promoting lies and rumours?,” TB Joshua asked the Ghanaian media.

“Well, as truth was older than terror, truth shall survive it. It got the start and it will get the race. I drop my pen here.”

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Chris Brown’s Probation Revoked

On May 12th Chris Brown was involved in a hit and run accident with a woman in the San Fernando Valley.

According to TMZ, Chris Brown left the scene without fully providing the proper information required. Though the female involved decided she does not want to send Brown to jail over the accident, the D.A feels Brown violated his probation from the Rihanna issue back in 2009, and broke the law. If Brown is found guilty he could receive up to 4 years in prison.

Currently Chris Brown has not received any jail time, but must go back to court August 16th for another hearing.

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