Country Support - Kenya

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Food categories[edit | edit source]

  • You can help completing Kenya categories and labels for the Green-Score (not supported yet)
  • page 16 (The Kenya Poverty Report, 2023) :
    • Cereals, grains, and bread: Rice, maize grain, green maize, maize flour, popcorn, wheat grain, wheat flour
    • Pulses: Beans, green grams, dolicos, peas, groundnuts, macadamia, cashew nuts,
    • Meat and fish/seafood: Canned beef/sausages, ham/Salami, tinned meat soups, meat paste for hamburger, other meats products, fish)
    • Milk, cheese and eggs : Milk, condensed/powder milk, milk sour, yoghurt, cheese, eggs
    • Oils and fats: Butter, ghee, margarine, cooking fat, cooking oil, lard, peanut butter, other oils and fats
    • Fruits : Tinned/packaged fruits
    • Vegetables : Tinned/packaged vegetable
    • Roots and tubers : Packaged potatoes, sweet potatoes and other roots and tubers
    • Sugar, jam, honey, chocolate and other confectionery : Sugar, sugar cane, jaggery, sugar-icing, jam, honey, marmalade, honey, chocolate bar, sweets, chewing gum, other sugar/confectionary
    • Spices, seasoning and food ingredients
    • Food products, spices & miscellaneous : Common salt, magadi, tomato/chilli sauce, food seasoning, pilau masala, ginger-tangawizi, mustard, pickles, vinegar, crisps, baking powder, yeast, other food n.e.c /spices
    • Coffee, tea and cocoa, mineral water, soft drink, fruit and vegetable juices : Soya drink, other coffee, tea and cocoa, squashes, sodas, energy/health drink, fruit juice, other drinks

Labels[edit | edit source]

Industry labels[edit | edit source]

  • Labels are required to include: product name, ingredients, net weight, expiry, nutrition info, and allergens
  • Trans-fat declaration is mandatory
  • Some companies voluntarily provide front-of-pack icons (e.g. “high in sugar”)

Public & Independent labels[edit | edit source]

  • APHRC page 18-19
    • Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) sets national food labeling rules (KS EAS 38:2014)
    • A Kenya Nutrient Profiling Model (KNPM) is under development (based on WHO), to support front-of-pack warnings
    • Labeling of Prepackaged Foods – Specification [KS EAS 38:2014]
    • Food, Drugs and Chemical Substances Act Cap 254 (Amendment) 2015

Religious labels[edit | edit source]

  • No formal tracking or labeling for religious diets in informal retail channels

Laws[edit | edit source]

  • page 15-17, 27
    • Food safety and quality governed by:
      • Food, Drugs and Chemical Substances Act (Cap 254)
      • Cereals and Other Produce Act (Cap 338)
      • Trade Licensing Act (Cap 497)
      • Kenya Bureau of Standards Act (Cap 496)
      • Consumer Protection Act (2012)
      • Food Security and Nutrition Policy
      • Constitution of Kenya
    • Product Healthiness governed by:
      • National Guidelines for Healthy Diets and Physical Activity
      • Kenya Nutrient Profiling Model (KNPM)
    • Excise tax on sugar products & non-alcoholic sugary drinks
    • Tax exemption and subsidies (on the agricultural inputs) on staple food such as maize flour, rice, and bread
    • VAT of 16% applies to most packaged food products

Traffic light systems and others[edit | edit source]

  • page 26
    • Kenya is considering a front-of-pack warning system (not traffic light)
    • The symbol tested: black octagon with text “High in [sugar/fat/salt]” + simple icons
    • Not officially rolled out yet, but part of the draft KNPM

Food Scandals[edit | edit source]

  • page 8, 15
    • Food safety enforcement is variable, especially in the informal market, where most dairy and staple foods are sold without regulatory oversight

Consumer Organisations[edit | edit source]

  • page 10, 14, 20
    • APHRC (African Population and Health Research Center): nutrition research, policy recommendations
    • Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS): food labeling, quality standards
    • Kenya Dairy Board - dairy quality regulation
    • Kenya Association of Manufacturers : represents food manufacturers
    • Kenya Private Sector Alliance

National food companies[edit | edit source]

Independent brands[edit | edit source]

  • page 9
    • Mombasa Maize Millers, New Kenya Cooperative Creameries (New KCC), Grain Industries Limited – Wheat
    • Brookside, Githunguri Dairy Farmers Cooperative Creameries – Dairy
    • West Kenya Sugar Company, Butali Sugar Mills, Sukari Industries Ltd – Sugar
    • Bidco Africa – Edible oils, juices
    • Unga Group – Staples
    • Glacier Products – Ice cream and snacks
    • Kevian Kenya – Juices
    • Manji Foods – Biscuits and baked goods

Distributor brands[edit | edit source]

  • page 13 (EMI, 2023)
    • Coca-Cola East & Central Africa
    • Nestlé Foods Kenya
    • Upfield Holdings BV
    • Kraft Heinz
    • Capwell Industries
    • Meatons Kenya
    • Bidco Africa
    • Weetabix East Africa

Supermarket chains[edit | edit source]

  • page 9 (EMI,2023)
    • Naivas (10–15% market share)
    • Carrefour, Quick Mart, Eastmatt, Chandarana Food Plus: <5% each
    • Informal retail (dukas, kiosks, wet markets) still dominate (>80%)
    • Formal retailers are growing in urban areas

Help convince local producers to share their data[edit | edit source]

🏭 Food manufacturers and retailers Yes! To enrich the database, we can count on contributors... but also on food manufacturers! Indeed, as they are the source of the data, which often means that they are able to provide good quality data, and in bigger volumes than manual individual contributions.

Help convince local producers to share their data

Geographic food origins databases[edit | edit source]

Local databases of interest[edit | edit source]

http://www.nutritionhealth.or.ke/wp-content/uploads/Downloads/Kenya%20Food%20Compostion%20Tables%202018.pdf

Open Food Facts like websites and apps[edit | edit source]

Translations[edit | edit source]

Communities we can reach out to[edit | edit source]

  • Facebook groups (local food, slow food, non-GMOs, organic…)
  • Meetups
  • Industry events

OCR support[edit | edit source]

  • List generated from OFF products in the country
  • freely available list

Open Prices - Access to Information requests (GDPR requests)[edit | edit source]

As part of Project:Open-Prices, we need price points for products, loads of them.

If you have a fidelity card, you can ask your data, using the GDPR (if you're in a EU country, or using other laws if you're elsewhere).

Local OFF contributor missions[edit | edit source]

Open Products Facts[edit | edit source]

Past and present Kenya issues on GitHub[edit | edit source]

Data Completion statistics[edit | edit source]

Follow Open Food Facts on social media[edit | edit source]

  • Open Food Facts has created presence on social media over the years in many languages. We now have the capacity to produce content in English and French, but we have a harder time translating and posting to all accounts. You can help by joining the marketing channel on Slack, and proposing to help for your language/country. Please get in touch with the permanent team before anything.

Get in touch[edit | edit source]

Slack channel