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FOOD ACT 1983
FOOD (AMENDMENT) (NO. 4) REGULATIONS 2019
IN exercise of the powers conferred by section 34 of the Food Act 1983 [Act 281],the Minister makes the following regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. (1) These regulations may be cited as theFood (Amendment) (No. 4)Regulations 2019.
(2) These Regulations come into operation on 1 November 2019 exceptparagraph 2(c).
(3) Paragraph 2(c)of these Regulations comes into operationon 1 November 2020.
Amendment of regulation 139A
2. The Food Regulations 1985 [P.U. (A) 437/1985] are amended in regulation 139A
(a)in subregulation (1), by substituting for the words a spherical product orsimilar to spherical product the words a cross section of a spherical ornon-spherical product;
(b)in subregulation (2), by inserting after the words controlled jelly confectionthe words that contains conjac or also referred to as glucomannan, konnyaku,konjonac, taro powder or yam flour; and
(c)by inserting after subregulation (2) the following subregulation:(3) There shall be written in the principal display panel in the label
of a package containing controlled jelly confection the wordsCAUTION: MAY POSE CHOCKING RISK and the wordsP.U. (A) 299
NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN BELOW 3 YEARS in capital bold-facedlettering of a non-serif character and shall not be smaller than 12 point..
Made 6 September 2019
[KKM. 600-1/3/77 JLD.3 (12); PN(PU2)418/XXVII]
DATUK SERI DR. DZULKEFLY BIN AHMAD
Minister of Health