Manufacturers of Kombucha Health drink, Nutricom Food and Beverages have backed its contents saying it does not contain higher alcoholic content as reported by the media recently.
In a statement released on Monday, the company said the insinuation from the article that as a company they are providing false information of their product to the consumers which is illegal, is misleading.
“We wish, hence, to make it clear and assure Malawians that we are a law-abiding company, and our 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.
“On the question of varying alcohol contents, we need to underline here that at the point of production, alcohol content in our 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.
“As a company, we will continue to tirelessly work with all relevant regulatory institutions in the country to ensure that we continue, as we have done in the past 7 years, to deliver a product that meets the demands and expectations of our customers,” reads the statement
