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Standards body allays fears of plastic rice in Kenya

Kenya Bureau of Standards (Kebs) has denied the existence of plastic rice in the Kenyan market as depicted in a social media video that has since gone viral.

In an emailed statement to the newsrooms, Managing Director Charles Ongwae dismissed the video as fake allegations and clarified that it was just plastics being recycled.

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