{"id":221055,"date":"2026-01-19T22:56:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T20:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-court-fast-tracks-case-on-safety-of-sanitary-pads-and-diapers\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T22:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T20:56:24","slug":"kenya-court-fast-tracks-case-on-safety-of-sanitary-pads-and-diapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-court-fast-tracks-case-on-safety-of-sanitary-pads-and-diapers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Court Fast-Tracks Case On Safety of Sanitary Pads and Diapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The Court of Appeal in Nairobi has certified as urgent a public interest appeal challenging the safety, marketing and environmental impact of widely used sanitary pads and diapers in Kenya.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">In its ruling, the court fast-tracked Civil Application No. 12 of 2025, arising from a High Court constitutional petition, citing the matter&#8217;s significance to public health, consumer rights, children&#8217;s welfare and environmental protection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">The case will be heard by a three-judge bench appointed by&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601190209.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The Court of Appeal in Nairobi has certified as urgent a public interest appeal challenging the safety, marketing and environmental impact of widely used sanitary pads and diapers in Kenya. In its ruling, the court fast-tracked Civil Application No. 12 of 2025, arising from a High Court constitutional petition, citing the matter&#8217;s significance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":221056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6683,6185,53449,36048,4688,430,257,11208,4672,11207,254],"class_list":["post-221055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-case","tag-court","tag-diapers","tag-fasttracks","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-pads","tag-safety","tag-sanitary","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}