NUTRICOM FOOD AND BEVERAGES LIMITED CLARIFIES ON KOMBUCHA ALCOHOL CONTENT
Nutricom Food and Beverages Limited has made some clarifications on a news article published in Nation on Sunday alleging that one of its products, Kombucha, contains higher alcoholic content than what is mentioned on the label.
The insinuation from the article is that the company is providing false information of their product to the consumers which is illegal.
However, in a statement, the company has made it clear and assured Malawians that as are a law-abiding company, their operations are guided by strict compliance to the laws that govern production and manufacturing processes in this country.
“We have been producing Kombucha for the past 7 years and in all these years, it has been tested and cleared by the Malawi Bureau of Standards (MBS). We don’t have a record of non-compliance.” reads the statement in part.
On the question of varying alcohol contents, the company says they need to underline that at the point of production, alcohol content in its product is 0.005 as indicated on the sticker.
“However, due to varying storage conditions as the product goes to the market, fermentation processes doesn’t stop—it is either slowed down in refrigerated conditions or fastened when not refrigerated.
However, the company says it will continue to tirelessly work with all relevant regulatory institutions in the country to ensure that they continue, as they have been doing in the past 7 years, to deliver a product that meets the demands and expectations of its customers.
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