{"id":14052,"date":"2019-10-04T14:29:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T14:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=14052"},"modified":"2019-10-04T14:29:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T14:29:20","slug":"trade-ministry-concerned-over-poor-quality-of-brarudi-beverages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/trade-ministry-concerned-over-poor-quality-of-brarudi-beverages\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade ministry concerned over poor quality of Brarudi beverages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a press briefing held this October 4, Jean Marie Niyokindi, Minister of Trade has said it has been revealed that some Brarudi products are of poor quality. \u201cAmstel, Primus, Royal and soft drinks have lost their original tastes,\u201d said Mr. Niyokindi.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14054\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14054\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-14054\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/jean-Marie-Niyokindi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/jean-Marie-Niyokindi.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/jean-Marie-Niyokindi-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/jean-Marie-Niyokindi-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/jean-Marie-Niyokindi-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean Marie Niyokindi: \u201cBrarudi Beverages have lost their<br \/>original tastes\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He has said a team of his ministry has carried out an inspection and found out that there is shortage of Brarudi beverages in different areas of the country. \u201cIn localities where they are available, they are of poor quality,\u201d he says, adding that traders are currently speculating on the prices of Brarudi products.<\/p>\n<p>The Burundian Minister of Trade calls on Brarudi Company to identify and control the potential biological and chemical hazards to the health of consumers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrarudi should reinforce its analyses and controls to guarantee the quality of its products and meet the consumers\u2019 expectations,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Jean Marie Niyokindi exhorts the Burundian office in charge of standardization and quality control-BBIN to play its role and make surprise inspections of Brarudi products on the market. \u201cBrarudi should take this serious warning to produce good quality beverages\u201d, he adds.<\/p>\n<p>Iwacu has tried to get Brarudi Company\u2019s reaction to the Minister\u2019s remarks but to no avail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a press briefing held this October 4, Jean Marie Niyokindi, Minister of Trade has said it has been revealed that some Brarudi products are of poor quality. \u201cAmstel, Primus, Royal and soft drinks have lost their original tastes,\u201d said Mr. Niyokindi. He has said a team of his ministry has carried out an inspection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,670],"tags":[88,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14056,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14052\/revisions\/14056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}