07 January 2020

Why packaged products need to be labelled?

Do you know that finished products that had been packaged should posses label? Why? Here are the reasons: 
1. To provide information about product content.
2. To provide information about food usage  
3. To ease enforcement from Health department officers 
For Consumers, please pay attention that to
1. buy only packaged and labelled food
2. acknowledge the food ingredient
3. make sure the food storage does not passed the expiry date
4. read in detail and follow the food keeping instructions
5. understand the food proparing method
6. study the food information at label
7. avoid buying food with broken packaged (tinted, rusty or swollen). 
Credit: Food Safety & Quality division, Kedah State Health department

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