April 2016 – Consumers Association Penang

Energy Commission’s Dereliction of Duty

admin April 28, 2016 0 Comments

Five years after CAP reported (on 25.10.2010) the sale of an electrically heated “warmness pillow” to the Electricity Commission (EC), it issued a directive prohibiting the import, manufacture, sale, advertising of the product on 23.10.2015. However, there has been no enforcement of this directive. CAP was able to purchase one of these pillows on 26.4.2016. The Taiwanese product, promoted as...

No Transport Hub at Prangin Canal, Please

admin April 26, 2016 0 Comments

By Khoo Salmah Nasution President, Penang Heritage Trust The newly announced Penang Transport Masterplan proposes a transport hub at the Prangin Canal. The open space is important to the people who live and work around it. The Prangin Market, the Prangin Canal, the heritage shophouses and the underground remains make this place rich with social memory. Prangin Canal was built in 1804 as part of a...

Immediately Set Standards to Regulate Dispensing and Medicine Management in clinics

admin April 26, 2016 0 Comments

Earlier this month, a media reported an incident where a clinic assistant labelled the medicines wrongly resulting in adverse consequences for the child concerned. According to the article the child was taken to a clinic in Pasir Mas, Kelantan for rashes. He was prescribed an antibiotic and a lotion for external application. The clinic assistant labelled the medicines wrongly resulting in the...

Public Response to The Penang Transport Master Plan (PTMP)

admin April 25, 2016 0 Comments

We, the undersigned civil society organisations, wish to issue the following statement in response to the Penang Master Transport Plan. We support the idea of a transport masterplan and the need to prioritise public transport over the present private car-centric transport system. We wish to commend the Penang State Government for this pro-active move. However there are very fundamental and...

Trees for the Earth

admin April 22, 2016 0 Comments

CAP celebrates Earth Day 2016 Our planet is currently losing over 15 billion trees each year, equivalent to 48 football fields every minute. This is outrageous. In Malaysia, we have been losing our precious trees to make way for development, logging, large-scale plantations, urbanization, road projects, etc. Our task now is to stop indiscriminate felling of trees and start planting more trees....

Odour Pollution: An Environmental Pollution that Must be Abated — Government Should Serve People not Corporations

admin April 19, 2016 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) calls on the authorities to seriously consider odour as an important environmental pollution issue as it affects communities’ quality of life and infringes our right for a clean environment. Efforts to abate odour levels are necessary in order to maintain the quality of the environment and hence life. CAP is disappointed in the manner the Penang...

600 Coastal Fishermen in Teluk Bahang Affected by Pollution

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The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) urged the Penang state government and relevant authorities to investigate and take immediate action to resolve marine pollution in Teluk Bahang that has threatened the livelihood of 600 coastal fishers here. The pollution problem that has become more serious in the past three months has resulted in affected fishermen not going to sea because their...

CAP reiterates call to ban antibiotics in animal feed

admin April 15, 2016 0 Comments

The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) would like to respond to the points raised by the deputy director-general of the Department of Veterinary Services (DVS) Datuk Dr Quaza Nizamuddin Hassan Nizam in the article by Fazleena Aziz ‘DVS monitors use of antibiotics in animal feeds’ dated 17 March 2016. In his statement Dr Quaza said that: ‘A low dosage (of antibiotics) is mixed in animal...

CAP Calls for Rehabilitation of Paddy Fields in Kampung Ewa, Langkawi

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The Consumers Association of Penang urges the Department of Agriculture Kedah and the Drainage and Irrigation Department to take immediate action to assist 30 farmers in Kampung Ewa, Langkawi Island to rehabilitate their paddy fields which have remained idle for the past three years. The paddy fields covering about 100 acres have been left unattended due to insufficient water supply to irrigate...

CAP: Ban Ponceau 4R

admin April 14, 2016 0 Comments

The Consumers Association of Penang calls on the Ministry of Health to ban Ponceau 4R. The reddish - orange dye is known to cause cancer, allergic reactions and asthma. Presently it is banned in Canada, Norway and United States. Ponceau 4R is an azo dye which is produced from petroleum products. In our latest test we found 5 samples of dried prawns,2 samples of fish crackers and 1 sample of...

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Month: April 2016