Ndovu Maize Flour is among fourteen maize flour brands that have been flagged by the Kenya Bureau of Standards. The other brands include prestige sifted maize, Sima tamu, Range corn, Top white, Diamond sifted maize, Bel’s organic, Winnies ugali afya, family. Others are Jasiri sifted maize, Jema sifted maize, Mugambo sifted maize, Jibe maize flour and Jodari. Ndovu maize flour is a product of the Mombasa Maize Millers company.
KEBS said that it was not imposing a total ban on the maize brands, but was flagging them as a chance for the millers to adhere to the correct manufacturing standards.
In August 2021, KEBS banned the sale of 27 flour brands on grounds that they were non-compliant with the required standards.
The maize brands blacklisted in August included; Budget, Equatorial Ugali Afya, Fahali, Family, and Pembe flour. Others were; Riri, Sima Tamu, Tupike, Ugali Bora, Unga Sawa, Uwezo and Ziwa.
”We notify the public that the mentioned maize meal and composite flour brands are non-compliant and should therefore not be sold to the public until further notice and the necessary corrective actions have been undertaken by the concerned parties,” KEBS had said in a notice.
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Blacklisted porridge brands included; Soko Wimbi Mix, Winnies Pure Health-Ugali Afya, Greenhouse Pride Polished Wimbi with Milk Powder, Golden Porridge Flour Sour Uji Mix, Najah Nutrition Food Family Porridge, Natasha Porridge, Excellent Nutritious Porridge. Others were; Split Peas Flour Unga Wa Bhajia, Generation Wimbi Porridge Flour, Famila Natures Food The Original Ujimix (sour porridge), Rest Food Products Afya Bora Kinara Porridge, Narisha Plus, Rimwambi Soya Porridge Mix, and Wimbi Safi Marss.
