No plans to ban ‘Pei Pa Koa’ flavoured products, says S’pore agency

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The Singapore Food Agency says such products are unlikely to have food safety issues given the low amount of herbal ingredients in the food itself.  Read More: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2024/08/06/no-plans-to-ban-pei-pa-koa-flavoured-products-says-spore-agency/  Free Malaysia Today is an independent, bi-lingual news portal with a focus on Malaysian current affairs.    Subscribe to our channel - http://bit.ly/2Qo08ry   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check us out at https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com Follow FMT on Facebook: https://bit.ly/49JJoo5 Follow FMT on Dailymotion: https://bit.ly/2WGITHM Follow FMT on X: https://bit.ly/48zARSW  Follow FMT on Instagram: https://bit.ly/48Cq76h Follow FMT on TikTok : https://bit.ly/3uKuQFp Follow FMT Berita on TikTok: https://bit.ly/48vpnQG  Follow FMT Telegram - https://bit.ly/42VyzMX Follow FMT LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/42YytEb Follow FMT Lifestyle on Instagram: https://bit.ly/42WrsUj Follow FMT on WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/49GMbxW  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download FMT News App: Google Play – http://bit.ly/2YSuV46 App Store – https://apple.co/2HNH7gZ Huawei AppGallery - https://bit.ly/2D2OpNP  #FMTNews #SingaporeFoodAgency #InsideScoop #PeiPaKoa

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00:00Singapore's Food Safety Agency does not plan to emulate the Malaysian Health Ministry in

00:07banning pepaku cough syrup-flavoured food products.

00:11The Singapore Food Agency said pepaku was a herbal syrup classified as a Chinese proprietary

00:16medicine and regulated by the Health Sciences Authority.

00:20The authority said it was common for Chinese herbal materials to be used in small amounts

00:25as ingredients or flavourings for food, adding that such products were still subject to the

00:30SFA's food safety laws.

00:32In view of the low levels of each herbal ingredient in the food, it said pepaku-flavoured food

00:38products were unlikely to have any food safety issues.

00:41Nevertheless, the authority said consumers are advised to consume such products in moderation.

00:48Last week, Malaysia's Health Ministry ordered ice cream shop Inside Scoop to halt sales

00:53of its pepaku-flavoured ice cream and for all adverts of the product to be taken down.

00:59It said the preparation or sale of adulterated food was prohibited under Section 13B, Sub

01:042 of the Food Act 1983, which provides for up to five years in jail, a maximum RM20,000

01:11fine or both upon conviction.

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