Category: Food EN

The Malaysian Food Security and Sovereignty Forum is concerned that the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry (MAFI) will proceed to table the Plant Seed Quality Bill which has been in discussion since 2019, during the next Parliamentary sitting. According to the Minister of Agriculture in a 27 March 2021 news article, this new bill would regulate all regulated seeds in terms of processing,...

The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) calls upon the authorities to conduct thorough investigations on all chicken farms in the country for salmonella contamination. This should be done in light of the second recall of eggs by the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) which had detected the presence of Salmonella enteritidis in eggs imported from Malaysia, this time from a farm located in Perak. This...

The recent report on eggs from a farm in Kuala Selangor being suspended by the Singaporean authorities shows that Malaysians are being rated as second-class consumers where food safety is concerned. The eggs were rejected as they were found to be contaminated with salmonella enteritidis bacterium. Again we hear the authorities saying that the eggs are not sold in Malaysia and it is only from...

Recently the media reported that four fucuk (thin dried tofu sheets) factories in Sungai Bakap and Sungai Jawi, Penang were issued compound notices for operating in unhygienic conditions. Penang Health Department’s Food Safety and Quality Division (BKMM) Environmental Health Officer, Encik Mohd Wazir Khalid said that the compound notices, worth RM8,500 were issued to the premises which were...

Sulphites — can severely aggravate asthma in sensitive people. Besides it can cause stomach problems, blurred vision, dizziness, irregular breathing, breathlessness and nervous irritability. Also drastically reduces Vitamin B1 levels in people whose diet is deficient in vitamins. Sulphur dioxide — linked to mutations and cancer. SULPHITES & SULPHUR DIOXIDE > Sodium sulphite (E221)...

FRUITS should be eaten whole (and with their skins if possible) and not juiced, for better health benefits. Here’s why. > Freshly made juices — although an excellent source of natural vitamins and minerals — LACK FIBRE, which is present in whole fruits. Fibre adds bulk to the stool (and are mild natural laxatives) and also eases the rate of passage of materials through the large...

  RAISED on chemicalised feeds, antibiotics and growth hormones, the chicken you eat can contain the residues of many toxic chemicals that accumulate in their flesh. In 1998, CAP’s tests on chicken found them to be unsafe to eat — 89% of samples tested were found to have germs which were resistant to at least 1 of the 5 commonly prescribed human antibiotics used to kill it. According to...

WHAT THEY MAY ACTUALLY MEAN IN MODERN BREAD Are “whole grain” breads more nutritious? The term “whole grain” refers to the grain before it has been milled into flour. A grain kernel is comprised of 3 layers: the bran (the outer layer where most of the fibre exists), the germ (the inside layer where many nutrients and essential fatty acids are found) and the endosperm (the starchy middle...

You have a bee to thank for every 1 in 3 bites of food consumed, the US Department of Agriculture says. If bees are totally extinct, it would cause widespread hardship, and possibly famine for humankind. This is because bees play a vital role in the global food supply, pollinating crops which feed 90% of the world’s population. If all the bees died, a lot of the foods we regularly consume...