Loading ...KUALA LUMPUR: A study is being carried out by the Health Ministry to develop a specific standard for bird nest products under the Food Regulations 1985.
Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said this was to enhance consumers’ confidence on the safety level of bird nest products since it was a new industry.
“Safety and quality control of all bird nest products will also be upgraded to ensure they are safe and of quality,” he said in a statement here Thursday.
He said bird nest producers would also be registered in the food premises registration system through fosimdomestic.moh.gov.my to make it easier for them to comply with the Food Hygiene Regulations 2009.
Liow said the ministry also introduced the 1Malaysia Food Safety Scheme (SK1M) to assist small and medium entrepreneurs, including producers of bird nest products to carry out their own food safety control programme.
He said the ministry would also work with the Agriculture and Agrobased Industry Ministry to ascertain the safety of raw bird nests at the farm level.
These initiatives are made to realise the government’s aspiration of making the country’s swiftlet farming industry a high-impact industry, and to ensure the bird nests products were safe and of quality, he added. – Bernama
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