Wait 10 days before eating eggs
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17 MAR 2021 / 11:19 H
PETALING JAYA: Consumers will have to wait another 10 days before they know if it is safe to consume eggs sold in the market.
The Veterinary Services Department collected samples from eight poultry farms in Jeram, Selangor for tests in response to Singapore’s rejection of eggs from the farms.
Agriculture and Food Industries Deputy Minister I Datuk Seri Ahmad Hamzah told theSun that samples of the eggs are now at the department’s laboratory in Salak Tinggi.
“We can expect to see some results in seven to 10 days.”
The Singapore Food Agency announced last Friday that it had instructed importers to recall eggs from the Lay Hong Bhd layer farm in Jeram after detecting Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) in the eggs.
Hamzah said the farm has also been directed to stop marketing the eggs pending results of the Veterinary Services Departme findings.
The test requires the contaminated eggs to be pasteurised, a process called “heat treatment”.
The Salmonella virus, if consumed, can cause diarrhoea, abdominal pains, fever, nausea and vomiting. However, according to public health expert Dr Hanafiah Bashirun, the eggs can be safe for human consumption if boiled or fried at 100°C.
CAP: How safe are our eggs?
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March 17, 2021
GEORGE TOWN: The Consumers' Association of Penang (CAP) has urged the authorities to investigate all poultry farms in the country to ensure that they comply with food safety regulations.
This follows a recent report on the import of eggs from a farm in Kuala Selangor being suspended by Singaporean authorities as they were found to be contaminated with salmonella enteritidis bacterium.
CAP president Mohideen Abdul Kader said the authorities should also look into how chickens were reared, which could have contributed to the contamination.
"We urge the authorities to set up a committee to investigate the monitoring system with regards to food safety," he said today.
He advised consumers to cook their eggs thoroughly before consuming. The bacterium salmonella enteritidis can cause diarrhoea, abdominal pain, fever, nausea and vomiting.
Mohideen said the incident showed that some Malaysians were not conscious about food safety.
"It is strange that such an incident was not discovered by our local authorities earlier even though it is estimated that Malaysians consume 30 million eggs daily. Given the situation, Malaysian consumers may have unknowingly consumed the contaminated eggs."
The main pieces of legislation regulating food safety in the country are the Food Act 1983, Food Regulations 1985 and Food Hygiene Regulations 2009, aimed at protecting the public against food-related hazards and frauds, to promote safe preparation, handling, distribution and the sale of healthy and high quality food.
No respite for fraud victim as bank insists on payment for purchases she never made
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17 Mar 2021
IPOH: A customer service representative is at her wits' end after her e-commerce account was apparently hacked and her credit card used to buy more than RM18,000 worth of items.
Low Syuk Yee, 38, said she never received any one-time passwords from the issuing bank for the 25 transactions made within four hours on Aug 13 last year.
She subsequently lodged a police report as well as reports with the bank and online shopping platform.
She said the transactions amounting to RM18,437.40 were for the purchase of mobile and social media chat top-ups.
“The police said they would not be able to open an investigation into the matter, the online platform does not want to reveal details to me, and the bank said that I have to settle the monthly payment," she told a press conference organised by Perak MCA Public Service and Complaints Bureau chief Low Guo Nan on Tuesday (March 16).
She said she was at least able to stop the charges from being racked up further after getting a message from the bank about a transaction for RM812.40 on the night of Aug 13.
Syuk Yee said when she got the message from the bank, she immediately asked the bank to block her card.
“I also called the online platform, and the representative told me to change my password and make a police report.
“My transaction history on the site shows that I always only buy clothes and children’s items, and never spend more than RM500 per month.
Read more: No respite for fraud victim as bank insists on payment for purchases she never made
Penggunaan plastik sukar dielakkan
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16 Mac 2021
SHAH ALAM - Penggunaan plastik sukar dielakkan kerana ia telah menjadi suatu kebiasaan yang memudahkan kehidupan seharian dari peralatan makanan sehingga komponen peralatan elektrik dan kenderaan.
Presiden Gabungan Persatuan - persatuan Pengguna Malaysia (FOMCA), Datuk Dr Marimuthu Nadason berkata, berdasarkan laporan World Wildlife Fund (WWF) pada tahun 2020, anggaran nilai penggunaan bungkusan plastik makanan di Malaysia berjumlah 148,000 tan metrik.
“Malaysia juga merupakan pengimport utama sampah plastik iaitu kira-kira 870,000 tan metrik pada tahun 2018,” katanya dalam satu kenyataan pada Isnin sempena sambutan Hari Hak-hak Pengguna Sedunia (WCRD) disambut pada 15 Mac setiap tahun.
Beliau berkata, satu kajian menganggarkan bahawa Malaysia telah menghasilkan 0.94 juta tan sisa plastik yang tidak terurus.
“Daripada jumlah tersebut, 0.14 hingga 0.37 juta tan mungkin telah masuk ke lautan.
“Keupayaan negara untuk mengatasi masalah sampah plastik telah melebihi tahap kemampuan. Hanya sembilan peratus sampah plastik yang dihasilkan dunia telah dikitar semula. Sebilangan besar sampah plastik tersebut berakhir di tapak pelupusan sampah, longkang atau persekitaran,” katanya.
Beliau yang juga Presiden Consumers International berkata, kerajaan telah mengambil beberapa tindakan untuk mengurangkan penggunaan beg plastik termasuk mengenakan caj bagi beg plastik yang dijual di pasar raya dan kedai serbaneka.
Beware the debt trap, young ones
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March 15, 2021 @ 12:03pm
LETTERS: I refer to Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz statement recently that 40 per cent of millennials spend beyond their means.
In another worrying development, according to Bank Negara Malaysia, 47 per cent of Malaysian youths have high credit card debts.
These figures are alarming and probably unprecedented in the history of our nation. It is a stark reflection of the lack of financial prudence on the part of the millennials.
Lavishing spending and high living have resulted in thousands of them, on the threshold of adulthood, already being burdened with mounting debts, unable to service their personal loans whether housing, car, credit card and many other financial commitments.
Debt is something like quick sand in that it has the tendency to draw its victim deeper and deeper. Financial prudence is not an inborn trait but a self discipline that has to be acquired.
It is a dereliction of duty if parents do not educate their children on the importance of living within their means besides nurturing the saving habit.
How a man uses money, makes it, saves it, and spends it is perhaps one of the best tests of practical wisdom. Financial institutions are also partly to blame for this deplorable state of affairs.
SIARAN AKHBAR: HARI HAK-HAK PENGGUNA SEDUNIA, 15 MAC 2021
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13 MAC 2021
SIARAN AKHBAR
HARI HAK-HAK PENGGUNA SEDUNIA, 15 MAC 2021
TEMA: MENANGANI PENCEMARAN PLASTIK
Hari Hak-hak Pengguna Sedunia (WCRD) disambut pada 15 Mac setiap tahun. Ini merupakan sambutan global yang diraikan oleh pergerakan pengguna di seluruh negara. Pada setiap tahun, pertubuhan pengguna di seluruh dunia akan bergabung pada hari yang sama untuk menyoroti dan memberi kesedaran mengenai sesuatu isu yang penting bagi pengguna di seluruh dunia.
Tema WCRD bagi tahun 2021 ialah `Menangani Pencemaran Plastik’. Acara WCRD diselaraskan oleh Consumers International yang mempunyai keahlian lebih daripada 200 pertubuhan dari 100 buah negara. Pada masa ini, Presiden Gabungan Persatuan-persatuan Pengguna Malaysia (FOMCA) juga meupakan Presiden Consumers International.
Terdapat 17 Matlamat Pembangunan Lestari (SDG) yang ditetapkan semasa Sidang Kemuncak Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB) pada tahun 2016. Semua matlamat ini perlu dicapai menjelang tahun 2030. Pada masa ini, bumi sedang menghadapi pelbagai masalah besar - isu wabak COVID-19 hinggalah pencemaran. Salah satu punca utama yang menyumbang kepada pencemaran ialah plastik.
Matlamat SDG yang ke-12 ialah pengeluaran dan penggunaan yang bertanggungjawab. Peningkatan pengeluaran dan penggunaan barang di seluruh dunia menjadi penyumbang utama kepada ekonomi. Tetapi pengeluaran dan penggunaan yang secara berterusan juga akan menyumbang kepada kemusnahan semula jadi flora dan fauna. Pembangunan sosial dan ekonomi sudah pasti akan merosakkan bumi di pelbagai peringkat.
Penggunaan plastik sukar dielakkan kerana penggunaannya telah menjadi suatu kebiasaan, yang memudahkan kehidupan seharian - dari peralatan makanan sehingga komponen peralatan elektrik dan kenderaan. Plastik sememangnya telah mengubah kehidupan kita. Apabila jumlah penduduk semakin meningkat setiap tahun, maka penggunaan plastik juga kian bertambah. Plastik telah menjadi keperluan manusia yang amat ketara apabila plastik telah berubah dari plastik kepada bahan polimer yang boleh menjadi sintetik, termoset dan termoplastik.
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PRESS RELEASE: WORLD CONSUMER RIGHT DAY 2021,15 MARCH 2021
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13 MARCH 2021
PRESS RELEASE
WORLD CONSUMER RIGHT DAY 2021,15 MARCH 2021
THEME: TACKLING PLASTIC POLLUTION
15th March is World Consumer Rights Day. It is an annual occasion for celebration, impact and global solidarity within the international consumer movement. Each year consumer organisations throughout the world mark the day by joining to highlight and raise awareness of an issue that is important to consumers’ around the world.
The theme for World Consumers Rights Day 2021 is “Tackling Plastic Pollution. The WCRD event is organised and coordinated by Consumers International, which has membership of over 200 members from over 100 countries. The current President of CI is the President of FOMCA.
United Nations historic Summit in 2016 launched 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Currently, the universe is facing lots of major issues from pandemic to pollution. One main culprit contributing to pollution is plastic.
Goal number 12 of the SDG is about responsible production and consumption. The production and consumption of goods worldwide are nevertheless increasing as it is one of the major global contributor towards economy. Undeniably the inexhaustible production and consumption has contributed to the destruction of our mother nature both to the flora and fauna alike. Economic and social development has certainly impaired the planet earth at multilevel.
Plastics are something inevitable as it has been a boon in certain ways as we use it practically every day from our fork and spoon to components of electrical appliances and vehicles. Plastics have indeed changed our lives. As the population keeps increasing annually, so does the usage of plastics. The need for plastics have indeed increased tremendously since plastics have diversified from plastic to polymeric material which can be synthetic, thermoset or thermoplastics.
In Malaysia, besides, being one of the highest among six countries in Asia contributing to plastic waste, we are also importing plastic waste. In 2020 according to World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the estimate value of annual food plastic packaging consumption in Malaysia amounted to 148,000 metric tons. Malaysia’s annual per capita plastic consumption for packaging was almost 16.8 kilograms. Besides that, Malaysia is also a major importer of plastic waste, taking in 870,000 metric tons in 2018. This however has dwindled to 143,000 tons in 2019 as the government took stern and strict actions by closing illegal plants and imports.
Read more: PRESS RELEASE: WORLD CONSUMER RIGHT DAY 2021,15 MARCH 2021
Hari Hak-Hak Pengguna: COVID-19 bantu kurangkan penggunaan plastik sekali guna
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Mac 15, 2021 11:03 MYT
PENGGUNA perlu terus memainkan peranan dengan mengurangkan kebergantungan kepada plastik sekali guna.
Gabungan Persatuan-Persatuan Pengguna Malaysia (FOMCA) dalam satu kenyataan memaklumkan kerajaan telah mengambil beberapa tindakan untuk mengurangkan penggunaan beg plastik, termasuk mengenakan caj bagi beg plastik yang dijual di pasar raya dan kedai serbaneka.
Presidennya, Datuk Dr Marimuthu Nadason memaklumkan bagi mengelakkan pengguna membayar caj tersebut, peruncit perlu menggalakkan pengguna untuk membeli beg kitar semula dengan harga yang berpatutan.
Selain itu, katanya, penularan COVID-19 telah mewujudkan perubahan kepada trend pengguna apabila pengguna mula membawa bekas sendiri untuk bawa pulang makanan.
“Pengguna yang bertanggungjawab dan mempunyai kesedaran tentang kesan penggunaan beg plastik, akan menggunakan bekas makanan yang boleh dikitar semula.
"Pekerja pula membeli makanan dan makan di pejabat mereka.
"Ramai juga yang menggunakan bekas air yang boleh digunakan semula untuk dibawa ke mana sahaja,” katanya.
Dr Marimuthu berkata plastik akan terus kekal kerana ia sudah sebati dengan kehidupan seharian.
Penggunaan plastik memang tidak dapat dielakkan dalam kehidupan masyarakat tetapi bukan plastik sekali guna.
Read more: Hari Hak-Hak Pengguna: COVID-19 bantu kurangkan penggunaan plastik sekali guna
Tahap kesedaran rendah punca isu sampah plastik tidak terurus terus meruncing
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Mac 15, 2021 08:00 MYT
MASALAH persekitaran berkaitan sampah plastik menjadi isu besar di Malaysia apabila ia berada di kedudukan kelapan antara 10 negara teratas di dunia yang menghadapi isu sampah tidak terurus.
Kesan penggunaan plastik akan dirasai apabila orang ramai dan penyedia perkhidmatan tidak bertanggungjawab berterusan membuang plastik secara tidak terurus.
Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Gabungan Persatuan Pengguna-pengguna Malaysia (FOMCA), Dr Saravanan Thambirajah berkata pelbagai kaedah perlu digunakan untuk mendidik masyarakat agar mengurangkan penggunaan plastik.
“Sekolah adalah tempat terbaik untuk mendidik anak-anak. Anak-anak generasi masa kini berani menegur ibu bapa mereka yang membuang sampah di khalayak ramai.
Selain itu, perlu diwujudkan lebih banyak pusat kitar semula supaya pengguna mempunyai akses untuk melupuskan sampah plastik atau barang yang boleh dikitar semula.
"Kerajaan perlu melibatkan peranan persatuan penduduk di tempat masing-masing.
"Ia pasti dapat mengurangkan plastik berakhir di tapak pelupusan sampah,” ujarnya.
Mengulas isu sama, Persatuan Pengguna Pulau Pinang (CAP) berpandangan tahap kesedaran dalam kalangan masyarakat mengenai sampah plastik masih kurang.
Naib Presidennya, Fathima Idris berkata meskipun pelbagai kempen dilaksanakan, namun penggunaan plastik dilihat masih lagi tinggi terutamanya di pasar awam dan kedai-kedai runcit.
Read more: Tahap kesedaran rendah punca isu sampah plastik tidak terurus terus meruncing
There’s money in recycling, don’t let it go to waste, govt urged
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March 11, 2021 8:30 AM
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Plastics Manufacturers Association (MPMA) has urged Putrajaya to remodel the waste management system to meet the rising demand for recycled plastic resin in the next four years.
MPMA vice-president CC Cheah said it made “commercial sense” to tap into the recycling industry, which generates some RM4.5 billion in annual revenue.
Demand for recycled plastic, he said, was expected to hit 4.5 million tonnes by 2025.
Cheah said the Covid-19 pandemic had also led to a surge in demand for plastic for consumer products, such as food packaging and electronics.
This, in turn, would further contribute to the demand for recycled plastic resin, he said.
“There is money to be made in waste management. There are a lot of business opportunities that many private companies want to invest in,” he told FMT.
He believed that with the right incentives, proper regulation and framework as well as Putrajaya’s support, the sector can grow into a RM15 billion to RM20 billion industry.
Cheah said that apart from that, the industry would offer job opportunities, especially for chemical, mechanical and electrical engineers as well as technicians, on top of other disciplines.
In remodelling the nation’s waste management system, he said, Putrajaya should invest in more materials recovery facilities, or MRFs, nationwide.
These facilities are used to “separate and densify commingled materials” to prepare them for recycling.
Read more: There’s money in recycling, don’t let it go to waste, govt urged
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