August 2022 – Consumers Association Penang

Bring those involved in wildlife trafficking to justice!

Lai Cheng August 30, 2022 0 Comments

The Consumer Association of Penang (CAP) lauds the USD18 million (RM80 million) seizure on 10 July 2022 by the Royal Malaysian Customs Department for its biggest seizures of elephant tusks, rhino horns, pangolins and a variety of other threatened animal parts. It is said to be the largest haul in the nation’s history. While the seizure is significant, this recent event is not the first as...

Crack the Whip on Food Waste

Lai Cheng August 29, 2022 0 Comments

CAP calls on the authorities to come out with urgent solutions to address the enormous food wastage problem that has been dogging the country for many years. Wasting food has direct impacts not only on people locally, but also globally where hundreds of millions of people now have no food to eat every day. The World Food Programme (WFP) recently warned that as many as 828 million people go to...

NATURE HEALS, SOOTHES & RESTORES

Lai Cheng August 26, 2022 0 Comments

Being in nature, or even viewing scenes of nature, reduces anger, fear, and stress and increases pleasant feelings. Exposure to nature not only makes you feel better emotionally, it contributes to your physical wellbeing, reducing blood pressure, heart rate, muscle tension, and the production of stress hormones. It may even reduce mortality, according to scientists. Nature helps us cope with...

Govt is helping EPF to dig a deeper financial hole

Lai Cheng August 24, 2022 0 Comments

The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) had cautioned about the government several times about allowing the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) members to withdraw their savings through i-Lestari and i-Sinar in 2020, i-Citra in July 2021, and a special withdrawal in March 2022. However, it fell on deaf ears. EPF funds are meant for its members’ retirement and not for them to withdraw to tide over...

MOMILA BEAUTY WHITENING CREAM BANNED

Lai Cheng August 24, 2022 0 Comments

The Health Ministry's National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency has banned Momila Beauty Whitening Cream, which contains mercury that can be harmful to health. "The mercury can be absorbed into the body and cause damage to the kidney and nervous system. It can also disrupt the brain development of young or unborn children, besides causing rashes, irritation and other changes to the skin," says...

DON’T FALL INTO THE BEAUTY TRAP

Lai Cheng August 23, 2022 0 Comments

by Afiqah Sumayyah Women and girls are being given the wrong message about beauty. Beauty today is associated with one’s body shape, weight, height and facial proportion, and relies entirely on marketers’ idea of what it means to be beautiful. This definition of beauty by advertisements and social media has created unhealthy expectations in society today. As a result, billions of people are...

STOP THE SALE OF TALC-BASED PRODUCTS

Lai Cheng August 19, 2022 0 Comments

With the voluntary cessation of talc-based baby powder sales globally by Johnson & Johnson in 2023, the Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) calls on the Health Ministry to ban other imported talc-based baby powders and those produced by local manufacturers. The Health Ministry (MoH) should institute the ban with immediate effect rather than to wait till next year. The existing stock of...

EAT YOUR WATER

Lai Cheng August 17, 2022 0 Comments

Our body needs water to function. Two-thirds of our body is made up of water, which we constantly lose through breathing, perspiration, urine and bowel movements. Hence the need to replenish your body's water supply regularly. But do you know: You can hydrate your body with food, not just with water. Lots of fruit and vegetables are also great sources of water. “About 80% of our water intake...

Corruption Undermines Malaysia’s National Security: An urgent call to establish a RCI to investigate institutional weaknesses in the Ministry of Defence that enable corruption and threaten our security and sovereignty

Lai Cheng August 16, 2022 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) calls upon the government to urgently establish a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) to investigate the Ministry of Defence (MOD) arms procurement scandals stretching over a period of 40 years. The RCI should make recommendations for effective governance and oversight mechanisms to eliminate corruption and abuse of power in the Ministry and related...

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