Uganda's National Drug Authority has admitted that it knew HIV and Aids medicine was being used to fatten animals in 2014 but did not warn the public.
The regulator's senior drugs inspector told parliament it became aware anti-retrovirals were being given to pigs and chickens to treat them.
Humans consuming small quantities of the drugs in food could be dangerous.
A spokesman said if there was a health risk it would have warned the public, while insisting the authority's job was to regulate drugs not food or animal feed.
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