What Kenyan law says about product labelling

The Consumer Protection Act gives consumers the right to receive sufficient information about a product to enable them to make informed purchasing decisions.

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The Kenya Bureau of Standards (Kebs) has launched investigations into Chinese retail chains selling products labelled entirely in Mandarin in Kenya after a Business Daily investigation that highlighted how the products violated the law.

For consumers, the label on a product is often the first and sometimes only source of information about what they are buying, which is why it is dictated by different laws.

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