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Article

28 Mar 2017

Author:
IPP Media (Tanzania)

Tanzania: Locals say effluent from Huwa Cheng's slaughterhouse could cause diseases; company comments

"Residents, donkey meat plant at odds over pollution"

Hundreds of Dodoma municipality dwellers are at risk of contracting water and airborne diseases following...discharge of polluted water from a donkey meat processing plant owned by...Huwa Cheng...[They] claimed that factory attendants have been directing the dirty water from the factory to the streets, especially during the rainy season...posing a health risk especially to children who play in the streets...

Huwa Cheng factory manager....refuted the claims, saying the..."[company] adheres to all the environment management regulations".