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Month: May 2024

Month: May 2024

Ministry of Health bans sale of two types of spice products from India

Lai Cheng May 31, 2024 0 Comments
The Health Ministry has issued an order to stop the sale of two spice products from India suspected of containing ethylene oxide, an active ingredient in detergents. "Any traders, including online traders, who have stocks of these products are directed to stop the sale of the related products. "All e-commerce platforms and social media are requested to immediately cease advertisements for these...
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Lack of recognition of farmers’ rights by Malaysian government is worrying

Lai Cheng May 31, 2024 0 Comments
The following statement released by the Malaysian Food Sovereignty Forum is endorsed by 34 Malaysian organisations – including Consumers Association of Penang and Sahabat Alam Malaysia. We refer to the response of the Government of Malaysia1 to the communication document issued by Michael Fakhri2 , the Special Rapporteur on The Right to Food regarding the proposal for Malaysia to join the 1991...
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Enact the Generational End Game (GEG) law without delay

Lai Cheng May 31, 2024 0 Comments
Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) urges the government to enact a Generational End Game (GEG) which was adopted by the previous parliamentary special committee. It provides the roadmap to eliminate the social disease of smoking and vaping. The National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS): Adolescent Health, Malaysia 2022 reveals that “65.7% had initiated cigarette smoking, and 48.5% had...
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HOW TO REDUCE TRAFFIC BOTTLENECKS

Lai Cheng May 29, 2024 0 Comments
More roads = more traffic. This is known as "Induced Demand". Studies have shown that expanding road capacity often results in a proportional increase in traffic volume, negating the initial benefits. Expanding road infrastructure encourages car usage, leading to higher greenhouse gas emissions and environmental degradation. That’s a bad environmental impact. Investing in public transport...
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NURTURE YOUR CHILD’S STRENGTHS

Lai Cheng May 28, 2024 0 Comments
Children learn what they live and live what they learn. Inspire values in your child by example. Showing – not just telling – instils positive, true values in children that they will carry with them throughout their lives. Your parenting wisdom will draw out your child’s immense inner resources. That’s the message in this classic poem by Dorothy Law Nolte (a parent educator, family...
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Microplastics are in human testicles. It’s still not clear how they got there.

Lai Cheng May 28, 2024 0 Comments
People eat, drink, and breathe in tiny pieces of plastics — but what they do inside the body is still unknown. No human organ is safe from microplastic contamination, it seems — not even the testicles. Researchers at the University of Mexico recently tested 70 samples of testicular tissue — 47 from dogs and 23 from humans — and found microplastics in every single one. The...
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WHY YOU SHOULDN’T KEEP YOUR WALLET IN YOUR BACK POCKET

Lai Cheng May 28, 2024 0 Comments
Do you keep, and sit with your wallet in the back pocket? If so, beware. Doing this compresses the skin, muscles and nerves on one side of the buttocks, reducing circulation around the affected area and your legs. This can lead to a condition called sciatica – symptomised by numbness, tingling and/or shooting, and electric-shock like pain down the sciatic nerve. What happens when you sit on...
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COMPOSTING IS AN ECO-FRIENDLY SOLUTION

Lai Cheng May 27, 2024 0 Comments
Composting is the easiest, least expensive, and most scalable treatment option for organic waste. Composting = recovery of discarded materials, reduced landfill & incinerator waste + pollution, reduced surface & groundwater contamination, reduced soil erosion, and improved soil structure. Better waste systems = 70% cost cut per tonne. Source: GAIA US & Canada  
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