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With the controversy surrounding various cooking oil brands and production batches as the Kenya Bureau of Standards withdraws some from the market, it's time to think matters frying.
Consumers have decried the rising cost of cooking oil due to the vagaries of inflation, which has escalated domestic budgets in the face of stagnant salaries and income sources.
The ongoing Russian-Ukraine crisis disrupted global supply chains, including oil, whose rising cost saw a rise in the cost of production. Also affected was cooking oil whose cost was also worsened by global prices of crude palm oil, which is essential in manufacturing cooling oil.
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