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Month: March 2011

Month: March 2011

Increase food self-sufficiency, avoid wastage

admin March 25, 2011 0 Comments
The prices of staple foods are already escalating to worrying levels and a number of governments are resorting to urgent measures to address the situation. The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director-General, Mr Jacques Diouf was recently quoted as saying, “The rise in prices of food commodities all over the world is not going to ease in the short term in view of...
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Organic farming for food security and health

admin March 25, 2011 0 Comments
Organic agriculture is defined as “a holistic food production management system, which promotes and enhances agro-ecosystem health, including biodiversity, biological cycles and soil biological activity. It emphasises the use of management practices in preference to the use of off-farm inputs, taking into account that regional conditions require locally adapted systems. “This is accomplished...
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Multinational companies becoming a threat to food security

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The multinational corporations, aided by hedge funds, play a key role in causing the current global food crisis and rise in food prices through their increasing control of the food system. The United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food Jean Ziegler recently indicted multinational companies for badly aggravating the food crisis and raising food prices. Speaking in Geneva, Switzerland,...
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Ban the use of High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS)

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The Consumers Association of Penang calls on Ministry of Health to ban the use of High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) in food products.  HFCS is a toxic substance with an innocent name which food producers are using as a cheap substitute for sugar in processed food.   HFCS is widely used in a wide range of foods  such as jams breads spreads, chocolate, baking and cooking ingredients,...
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136 additives allowed in instant noodles

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136 additives, mostly chemicals, are allowed to be added in instant noodles by Codex, the food standards of WHO/FAO. The picture below shows some of those ingredients. Out of the 136 additives, 24 of them are sodium salts, besides table salt which is also added. That is why instant noodles contain extremely high sodium content. According to CAP tests, just one packet of instant noodles alone can...
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Call for immediate halt to sales of Similac Baby Formula

admin March 25, 2011 0 Comments
The Consumers Association of Penang is disturbed to read a Reuters report that Similac Baby formula manufactured by Abbott Laboratories Inc. has recalled millions of containers of the baby formula believed to be beetle-tainted in the United States. Similac Baby Formula is also sold here in Malaysia. The decision to voluntarily recall the product came about when two consumer reports were made on...
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A quarter teaspoon of this pesticide can kill – Ban it

admin March 24, 2011 0 Comments
The Consumers Association of Penang calls on the Ministry of Agriculture to impose an immediate ban on  the pesticide carbofuran. Early this year five farmers in Pendang, Kedah lost RM30,000 when 18 cows died from carbofuran poisoning. The cows were grazing on the rice field which had used the pesticide.   During a recent survey it was found that farmers growing maize placed carbofuran...
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Why no recall of QBB ghee?

admin March 24, 2011 0 Comments
The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) is shocked that there are no attempts being made by the Ministry of Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism to recall the sale of QBB ghee carrying the halal logo inspite of JAKIM's confirmation and withdrawal of the halal status of the ghee for containing doubtful elements, one week ago.   In a survey conducted in various shops in Penang,...
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Immediately stop the sale of QBB ghee

admin March 24, 2011 0 Comments
The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) calls on the Ministry of Domestic Trade, Cooperative  and Consumerism to immediately call for the withdrawal of sale of QBB ghee being sold in Malaysia. This is in view of the fact that the halal status of the ghee has been withdrawn by the Jabatan Kebangsaan Islam Malaysia (JAKIM) on the grounds that it contains doubtful elements. CAP has been...
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Make halal certification for hotels mandatory

admin March 24, 2011 0 Comments
Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) views with concern recent media reports that a majority of hotels in Malaysia still do not have halal certificates from the Department of Islamic Development, Malaysia or JAKIM. A news report in a Malay daily yesterday (Aug 18, 2010) said the Ramadan buffet food served at 70% of the hotels in the Klang Valley are not halal, and in some instances, even...
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