The Kenya Bureau of Standard (KEBS) has suspended 10 cooking oil brands that fail to meet the requirements of standards.
In a statement by KEBS, the brands include Fresh Fri with Garlic Oil, Fry Mate, Bahari Fry, Fresh Fri, Gold and Pure Olive Gold, Postman, Rina, Salit, Tilly, and Top Fry.
According to the statement, KEBS further requested retailers to remove the specified brands from their supply outlets to protect the consumer.
“The listed brands of non-compliant edible oils and fats that failed to meet the requirements of the standard: and to request your good office to notify your members to recall these brands and remove them from the supply chain from your members’ outlets across the country.” The statement read.
The ban is temporary, to give the manufacturers of the non-compliant brands time to initiate and put in place effective corrective action under KEBS supervision and protect the consumers from harmful products.
“Kindly note that this is not a ban on the brands but a temporary suspension to facilitate the protection of consumers from potentially unsafe products, safeguard the economic interests of manufacturers of compliant brands and allow the manufacturers of the non-compliant brands to initiate and put in place effective corrective action under KEBS supervision,” read the statement.
Kenyans were advised to check the quality of various cooking oils before purchasing the products.