By MAUREEN KAKAHMore by this AuthorA Coca-Cola bottler has appealed against a High Court order that soda manufacturers put nutritional information and customer care details on its glass bottles by end of June. In a filed appeal, Nairobi Bottlers Ltd wants the January 30 judgment issued by the late Justice Joseph Onguto, who died on March 1 after collapsing at Parklands Sports Club, to be set aside. He accused Coca-Cola company together with Nairobi Bottlers of discriminating against consumers of glass bottled drinks since they do not have nutritional information, email address and storage directions as compared to the ones stored in plastics. But Nairobi Bottlers had argued that there was no legal obligation on a manufacturer, packer or distributor of soft drinks to display nutritional information and email address on the label of its products. However, the late judge ruled that the exclusion of the disputed information amounted to discrimination hence directed Coca-Cola to ensure that the data is displayed on glass bottled soft drinks.

Source: Daily Nation May 01, 2018 06:56 UTC