Health Ministry orders Kedai Rakyat to improve food items


By Melissa Chi
December 03, 2011
Customers during a Kedai Rakyat 1 Malaysia in Bandar Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur Nov 11, 2011.
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 3 The Health Ministry has ordered Kedai Rakyat 1 Malaysia (KR1M) outlets as well as their suppliers to scold labelling errors as well as imitate with a food regulations law.

The sequence came following a assembly yesterday in in between Health director-general Datuk Dr Hasan Abdul Rahman as well as DAP's Tony Pua as well as PKR's Nurul Izzah Anwar during a ministry, The Star reported today.

Dr Hasan pronounced a method ordered all 7 outlets to rectify errors found in 7 products which were brought to a ministry's courtesy by Pua last week as well as to have certain they imitate with a Food Act 1983 as well as Food Regulations 1985.

"The method has investigated Pua's claims as well as confirms a 7 products did not imitate with some of a regulations stipulated in a dual laws which oversee a food industry.

"We have asked KR1M outlets last week to have a necessary changes. We appreciate them (Pua as well as Nurul Izzah) for bringing up this matter," Dr Hasan said, according to a English daily.

The 7 products have been ice-cream, mixed-fruit jam, evaporated milk, precipitated creamer, cann! ed sardi nes, canned curry chicken as well as present total divert powder.

Dr Hasan pronounced a outlets had accurate a ice-cream labelling as well as altered it to frozen confection, as well as he approaching a alternative rectifications to be done by subsequent week.

"These complaints have been not about a safety of a food but, rather, about a peculiarity of food which does not magnitude up to (industrial) standards," he forked out.

Pua had pronounced yesterday which a Health Ministry has admitted which some of a products sole during KR1M shops failed to meet authorised mand! ate alth ough it did not take any movement against a supplier.

One of a Kedai Rakyat 1 Malaysia on arrangement during Bandar Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur Nov 11, 2011.
Pakatan Rakyat (PR) lawmakers, led by Pua, Nurul Izzah as well as Dr Dzulkelfy Ahmad of PAS, had claimed 7 products sole during a government-backed thrift store have been of substandard quality, with some failing to meet authorised requirements.

These embody Growing Up divert powder, which a opposition pronounced contained excessive amounts of vitamin A, which could lead to liver problems as well as marked down bone density in children.

Among a disputed equipment were products affixed with a tag "ice cream" which has right away been revised to read "frozen confection" to simulate their deficiency of fat content; fruit jam which do not lift an ingredient list on their bottles; as well as evaporated divert or unsweetened precipitated milk, which should have been labelled as "evaporated divert creamer".

Nurul Izzah, who was also during th! e meetin g, pronounced Dr Hasan had admitted which 3 out of each 5 cans of sardines sampled do not imitate with a regulated fish content.

As for a Growing Up divert powder, Pua pronounced Dr Hasan admitted a product tag was dubious as it says low-fat divert solids in Malay but "instant total divert powder" in English.

"We contend which this divert powder lacks nutrients according to follow-on milk's authorised requirement. It is clear which it says follow-on divert is for six months to 3 years.

"Growing Up divert sole by Kedai Rakyat is for a single year as well as above. So there is obviously an overlap of dual years," Pua said.

He pronounced Dr Hasan told them which they have been in a process of formulating a authorised mandate for Growing Up divert as a vitamin A calm is 3 times on top of a endorsed calm for young kids elderly in in between a! single as well as two.

"So since which they have accepted (today), we hope a minister does his work as well as ensures correspondence in all these products as well as others which we didn't test. we can't be testing each product," Pua pronounced yesterday.

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