The Consumer Federation of Kenya (COFEK) is calling for a quick probe after a Del Monte juice was found with a snail.
The Federation through its Twitter handle blamed the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) for poor quality standard surveillance.
According to Cofek, the juice had a KEBS mark of quality emblem, indicating its safeness for consumers.
Del Monte on their part replied to the tweet by asking the complainant to address their concerns on their page.
Del Monte is a food processing business in Kenya that engages in the growing, making and canning of pineapple products.
The business makes cattle feed, mill juice sugar, juice concentrates, and canned solid pineapple.
As a direct result of the company's existence and operations, Kenya is among the top five pineapple exporters in the world and canned pineapple is the country's largest single-produced export.
Human rights organisations have targeted the company in the past due to unsafe conditions at the facility, poor living and working conditions for workers, and intimidation of trade union groups.
In the past, the company has received negative publicity as a result of disputes with workers and human rights organisations.
The Consumers Federation of Kenya (Cofek) is Kenya’s independent, self-funded, multi-sectorial, non-political and apex non-profit Federation committed to consumer protection, education, research, consultancy, litigation, anti-counterfeits campaign and business rating on consumerism and customer-care issues.
The Federation was registered on March 26, 2010. Cofek works towards a fair, just and safe marketplace for all Kenyan and regional consumers in all sectors of the economy.
