Kenya's golden age when a bag of maize retailed at Sh27

Kenya Bureau of Standards has blacklisted a total of 27 popular brands of maize flour which it says are substandard.

Retailers could wait long for refunds since there is no legal framework in place.

The list of products banned by Kebs in the recent past is staggering

?A trader and his wife were presented in Gichugu law court in Kirinyaga County after allegedly being found in possession of counterfeit maize flour

The media has done a good job exposing the dangers of aflatoxin to the Kenyan populace.

KEBS clears Kifaru and Dola maize flour, says they are fit for human consumption after manufacturers met set standards.

Kebs has issued an alert over maize flour contaminated with aflatoxin months after Kenyans consumed sugar laced with mercury

The government has banned five brands after reports they contain high levels of aflatoxin.

Business people accuse their suppliers of abandoning them, refusing to recall contaminated products banned by State.

Exposure to high levels of aflatoxin has been known to cause cancer.

Kebs suspends permits and instructs manufactures to discontinue distributing affected brands.

The standards regulator said it had detected high levels of aflatoxin after conducting several tests on the product