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Month: July 2020

Misleading and addicting football supporters is unethical

It is completely outrageous for the Selangor Football Association, Red Giants Team Card, to turn to Vape Empire Distribution for sponsorship. The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) finds that such sponsorship a blatant act to sabotage the government’s effort to curb nicotine addiction and questions what a hazardous cocktail of chemicals such as those found in vape to do with a healthy...
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Cancel the Proposed Aquaculture Project in Pandak Putih, Kuala Kurau, Kerian District, Perak

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) urges the Perak State Government, Kerian District and Land Office, Perak State Fisheries Department, Kerian District Fisheries Office, the local authority, Department of Irrigation and Drainage and all other relevant authorities take into serious account the interest of the local community following the development of an aquaculture project in Kampung Pandak...
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Ferry commuters inconvenienced because of Rapid Ferry incompetence

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is shocked by how Rapid Ferry is operated, without alerting the public of a schedule change to one-trip-an-hour from two-trips-an-hour previously. It grossly lacked foresight and planning, causing inconvenience to motorists and pedestrian commuters taking the ferry. We cannot comprehend how an entire fleet of six ferries between Penang Island and...
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Rose Perfume

That rose scent may be concocted from any number of the fragrance industry’s 3,100 stock chemical ingredients. Modern fragrances are chemical concoctions. For perfumes to be affordable, real flower essences are replaced with synthetic fragrances which are loaded with chemicals, many of which are toxic to health. The chemical components in fragrance can be lumped together and labelled only as...
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Sugar Feeds Cancer

The affinity of cancerous tissue for sugar is well known. Studies have shown that: > Those who consume fizzy drinks and syrup-based (squash) drinks twice or more times a day run a 90% higher risk of developing pancreatic cancer than those who never consume them. > Women with high blood sugar (hyperglycaemia) are more likely to develop cancers, even if they don't have diabetes. People with...
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Have Patience

It is only natural that everything needs time. A plant needs to be seeded, nurtured and grown before the fruits can be picked. An egg needs to be hatched. You cannot smash it and get the chick out. Similarly with people, the person has to be ready before he/she can receive a message. He/she has to have the experience or maturity to get it Like a plant, a person has to be nurtured from a baby to...
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Could the foreign worker have been spared from being buried alive?

It was reported on 21 July that a foreign worker was buried alive at a construction site in Kota Damansara and passed away as he was being rushed to the hospital. Preliminary investigation showed that the walls caved in as he was assembling an underground waste disposal pipe. The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is outraged by this news as this is certainly not the first time an accident...
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Is there talcum powder in your supplements?

According to an industry source, to avoid alarming consumers about the use of toxic tableting or encapsulating agents, most manufacturers simply avoid the problem by not listing them on their label. “Flowing agents such as talcum powder, a suspected carcinogen (cancer-causing agent), are used routinely by most … manufacturers as well as polyvinylpyrrolidone, magnesium stearate (a proven...
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Government should increase penalty on dirty food factories and eateries

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) urges the authorities to check on all food factories to ensure that they comply to a high standard of hygienic food manufacturing practices. We have been making this call to monitor food manufacturers for decades, but it appeared that raids had only been carried out irregularly thus emboldening some factories to violate the law. In recent media...
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