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The Kenya Bureau of Standards has confessed that it is unable to stop the influx of dangerous skin lightening creams from neighbouring countries.
The organisation's officer-in-charge in the county, Dennis Onyango, said smugglers have found ways of smuggling hazardous creams through Busia and Malaba. Mr Onyango said some skin lightening creams contain mercury and can cause cancer.
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