A section of milk sellers in Kisii town were on Wednesday arrested by officers from the Kenya Dairy Board for not maintaining the required hygiene standards set by the board.
The board's Nyanza branch director David Akungu who led the operation of finding the milk sellers said that the farmers were found selling the milk in places that were dirty.
“These people were selling the milk under insanitary conditions by the roadsides. Some were even selling in the back streets and were carrying the milk in plastic containers, which easily contaminate milk. Milk kept in plastic containers is not good for human consumption. Some milk we tested had water with some having powder substances in them,” he revealed.
The milk sellers were taken to the Kisii Law Courts and charged with selling milk under unhygienic conditions and not meeting up to the standards set to regulate the selling of milk to the public.
They were later on released and given fines ranging from Sh1,500 to Sh15,000.
Mr Akungu however said that the crackdown on the unhygienic milk sellers will continue to ensure the standards required by the board are met.