Privately owned Kenyan news site The Standard reports that 10 vendors have been arrested for selling meat wrapped in newspapers.

“Newspapers are published using ink which contains lead and other heavy metals whose consumption can kill human beings,” a regional health official for Homa Bay county - where the raid took place - is quoted as saying.

He told The Standard that plain paper - either white or brown - should be used instead.

The 10 people arrested - reportedly a mix of butchers and traders who had bought meat from them - are said to have violated a 14-day warning telling them to stop wrapping their wares in newspapers.

The Standard reports that the suspects will be charged in court.

In an apparent attack on the press, President Uhuru Kenyatta was quoted by local media in 2015 as saying Kenyan newspapers were only fit for wrapping meat.