Posts

Showing posts from March, 2013

Unsafe Tissue - Brands Unknown?

I am very concerned about public health in Jamaica. In a recent article in the Sunday Gleaner entitled, Tests Prove Unsafe Tissue Here , revealed that tests on toilet paper imported into Jamaica should that they had higher than acceptable bacteria content.   This has resulted in some 3 container loads being returned or destroyed. However, this is not enough. The public needs need more information. I fully agree with the following quote from the article.  "The next stage is that the Customs should go on the shelves of the supermarkets and the hotels to test those products because the public is at great risk," suggested Prakash Vaswani, one of the country's leading manufacturers of toilet paper. In addition my biggest question is which brands are these? Why can’t we know the brands? Why the secrecy? We need to move to society where the importer /distributer -   Acknowledges there is a problem - Names the brands and the batch - States what corrective action is being