NAIROBI, KENYA: Most of the now popular high strength alcoholic drinks in Nairobi are dangerous, says drugs and poisons experts from Kenya and Germany. The alcohol content in the cheap spirits being consumed in Nairobi is way above the safe levels for human health. At the same time, alcohol strength in most of the chang’aa is up to 86 per cent compared to the recommended 35-57 per cent alcohol content by volume. “Drinks of such high alcoholic strength pose public health risks to the consumers,” says the study published two weeks ago. The researchers say they found the high alcoholic strength in the chang’aa samples peculiar since the normal process of distilling the drink cannot yield such high alcoholic content.

Source: Standard Digital October 27, 2017 00:56 UTC