Mount Kenya Milk company has dispelled concerns alluding that a fake milk supplier was using its brand to supply milk to unsuspecting consumers.
In a statement, the milk processor noted that differences in packaging exposed in viral photos on social media were due to changes in branding.
As such, the company affirmed that both packets are genuine products, only that one of them was in an older packet.
At the same time, Mount Kenya Milk displayed its products and urged members of the public to explore them.
“We would like to confirm to the general public that both products circulating in the social media are our brands, one has old packaging and the other new packaging,” the statement read.
On Tuesday, photos of the company’s 500 ml milk packets surfaced on social media to spark an online uproar.
Mount Kenya milk packets raises concerns
An X user named Kijo Carol exposed discrepancies in the two packages and raised an alarm on what she thought was counterfeit milk using Mount Kenya’s branding.
To compound her concerns, both packets had a KEBS logo, a feature social media users related with past cases where counterfeit or unsafe products were caught bearing the standard mark.
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“So the milk on the left is fake and the one on the right is the real Mount Kenya,” Kijo Carol posed a question.
In June, the company launched a new processing plant named Meru Central Dairy Co-operative Union Factory Phase II.
The launch held in the presence of President William Ruto paved way for increased processing capacity with company targeting higher output.
Past cases of unsafe products
Moreover, in May, the Head of Public Service Felix Koskei was forced to suspend 27 government officials after reports emerged that officials at the KEBS had colluded with investors to release unsafe sugar to the market.
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The condemned sugar scandal grew to a scandal pointing out the gaps in Kenya’s systems created to ensure safety and standards of consumer goods.
In addition, security agencies have in the recent past impounded multiple counterfeit alcoholic products which members of the public now fearing that the products in the market could be unsafe.
Worse still, the counterfeit alcohol bears Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) stamps to further expose laxity in Kenya’s system.
