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Low-income shoppers drive up sales of illegal cosmetics despite ban

Kenya Bureau of Standards officials confiscate beauty products at a shop on River Road during a raid in April 2017. Photo, File

Traders in Nairobi's River Road continue to sell illegal products a few months after a crackdown by Kenya Bureau of Standards (Kebs).

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