MPs Raise Alarm Over Potentially Harmful Sugar Circulating in Shops
The development comes even as the government intensifies efforts to produce enough sugar for the country's consumption and therefore halts imports of the basic product...
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Kenyan lawmakers are questioning the safety of 27,839 metric tonnes of imported sugar flagged by the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS), fearing it may have entered the market.
- 27,839 metric tonnes of sugar, valued at Ksh1.5 billion, was imported by Mombasa Sugar Refinery Limited.
- The sugar was flagged by KEBS as only meeting raw sugar standards, not fit for direct consumption.
- Kenya Sugar Board (KSB) officials assured Parliament the sugar is under surveillance and has not been released to consumers, with police guarding the consignment in Nairobi.
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