Malawi lifts ban on Frozy drink of Mozambique

Standardization regulators, the Malawi Bureau of Standards (MSB) has lifted a ban on Frozy drink, a Mozambique drink which took the Malawi market by storm, threatening locally manufactured drinks including the giant Cocacola.

Frozy banned on Malawi market

MSB director Devlin Chokazinga says in a statement that Yaafico Industries Ltd, the manufacturers of the popular soft drink, have redressed the shortfalls which led to the ban of the drink in Malawi.

“…the Malawi Bureau of Standards hereby advises the general public that the ban which was imposed on Frozy has been lifted,” says the MSB director in a media statement .

MSB banned Frozy in November 2016 for what it described as critical failures of the product on labeling and high levels of critic acid and benzoates.

The bureau says among the actions taken, was the obtaining of random samples of Frozy drinks from the company and from the market for running conformity assessments with regard to MS18-Carbonated soft drinks specification and MS19-Labelling of preferred foods and general standards soft drink specification.

“Following the exercise, Yaafico has complied and Frozy is now compliant to the specifications. ”

The statement however says the manufacturers remain non compliant to MS19 because storage conditions for the drink are not indicated and some language on the bottle label cannot easily be understood by a Malawian user.

The manufactures have undertaken to rectify the two shortfalls within a month.

Soon after this announcement, Frozy was back on streets and shops in Lilongwe.

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Sailota
Sailota
7 years ago

Nchokazingadi ndithu. Olo manyaiz taaaa. Frozygate, shupiti zanu

ungwelu
ungwelu
7 years ago

Silly. This means that the faulty drinks were already in the warehouses and traders just opened their doors for another faulty frozy!!!!!!. Otherwise it should have taken at least a week for the correct drinks to be shipped from Mozambique to Malawi.

I cry for my beloved Malawi

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