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Click here to buy CAP BOOKS STOREWIDE PROMOTION 20 Apr-20May 30% discount. Visit the CAP bookshop at Book size: 215 x 145 mm Pages: 112 This is not surprising considering the advancements in modern food technology which is always looking for new food additives and new ways to reduce costs and maximise profits. Consider the feeding of cattle with chicken droppings, rearing maggots for animal...

The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) urges the people not to waste food because much food goes into the landfill. Studies have shown that food waste increased between 15 to 20 per cent during Ramadhan as compared with an average month. It was reported that in 2018 as much as 20,088 tonnes of food went into the garbage bin nationwide daily during Ramadhan. With that quantity wasted daily...

Buy Book here World Book Day is here!! CAP is having a 30% discount of our books in all the different languages. Visit the CAP bookshop here WHAT'S IN YOUR BREAD? : A CAP Guide Book size: 140 x 110mm Pages: 52 Most of today’s mass-produced foods are seriously depleted of nutrients and are highly chemicalised with additives. Processed foods today are not just more sophisticated versions of the...

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...