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Gambar contoh: Pinggan mangkuk China Fine Bone menjadi koleksi kegilaan sesetengah orang
Sumber: Utusan
PUTRAJAYA 7 Mei – Muzakarah Jawatankuasa Majlis Fatwa Kebangsaan memutuskan penggunaan pinggan mangkuk atau perhiasan daripada tulang babi atau Bone China adalah haram.
Pengerusinya, Prof. Emeritus Tan Sri Dr. Abdul Shukor Husin berkata, biarpun tulang tersebut sudah bertukar rupa selepas diproses hingga menjadi abu ia masih dikategorikan sebagai najis berat.
Katanya, ia berdasarkan hukum syarak yang mengharamkan apa jua peralatan diperbuat daripada babi.
“Pada umumnya muzakarah berpandangan peralatan pinggan mangkuk yang dibuat daripada tulang babi walaupun sudah dihancurkan tidak dibenarkan.
“Pihak kami dimaklumkan sebanyak tujuh juta babi disembelih untuk tujuan ini. Biarpun sudah menjadi debu dan dibentuk seperti cawan hukumnya masih haram pada syarak,” katanya ketika ditemui selepas Muzakarah Jawatankuasa Fatwa Kebangsaan Kali Ke-99 di sini, semalam.
Jangan ambil mudah dengan tamat tempohnya sesuatu bahan makanan yang kita beli. Peniaga seharusnya tidak menjual barangan yang sudah tamat tempoh tarikh sesuatu makanan mahupun ubatan.
Namun, kita sebagai pengguna harus mengambil inisiatif juga dalam memperhatikan tarikh luput barangan yang hendak dibeli. Jika tidak, apa yang berlaku seperti dilaporkan ini, boleh membahayakan.
dipetik dari NST:
Seeing red over expired ‘mee hoon’
SHOCKED: Instant noodles bought from sundry shop made son ill, claims imam
Sarif Salleh showing the ‘mee hoon’ he had purchased from a sundry shopin Taman Kota Besar. Pic by Ahmad Othman
AN imam in Kota Tinggi was shocked when he realised that the expiry date of a pack of instant mee hoon, which he had bought on April 24 this year, was Aug 16 2010.
Sarif Salleh, 68, of Taman Kota Besar made the discovery after his son Shariffuddin, 24, became sick after eating the noodles on the same day he bought it.
“My son vomited and suffered stomachache after eating the mee hoon,” Sarif said.
“I also cooked the mee hoon for my grandson, but fortunately my grandson only ate a small portion.
“I later checked the expiry date and was shocked to see the words ‘Best before 16082010′ which means the noodles had expired for close to two years.”
Sarif added said that he had bought two packs of the mee hoon, which comprised five packets of noodles each.
The noodles, he said, were packed in a factory in Bangkok.
“If the product had already expired, why was it still put on the shelf of the sundry shop?
“I admit that I was at fault for not checking the expiry date but the sundry shop owner has to be responsible, too,” he said.
Sarif added that he would bring the matter to the Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry.
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Hari ini tersebar satu surat yang dikatakan ditulis oleh seorang pekerja sebuah hotel, (The Plaza Hotel, Jalan Raja Laut, KL) yang mengadu kepada JAKIM bahawa:
… roti yang dibelinya (Purchasing Officer hotel tersebut) daripada syarikat Ming Kee Cake House adalah roti yang diberikan sebagai makanan anjing. Syarikat tersebut diperkenalkan oleh Pengurus Besar, Cik How Ai Bee malah pembelian roti-roti tersebut adalah di atas arahan Pengurus Besar untuk diberikan sebagai hidangan sarapan pagi kepada sejumlah 390 pelajar daripada Jabatan Pelajaran Selangor yang menginap di The Plaza Hotel Kuala Lumpur, pada tarikh 14hb sehingga 17hb November 2011
Baca keseluruhan suratnya di sini:Plaza Hotel KL hidang Roti makanan anjing
Lanjutan aduan ini, pihak JAKIM datang siasat dan mengesahkan roti tersebut mengandungi babi.
The incident that brought Jakim to investigate the premise of The Plaza Hotel sometime in December 2011, of which are made known that it aroused from that the buns served for 390 students from Jabatan Pendidikan Malaysia, that you had directed to purchase from Meng Kee Cake House are confirmed to be with contents of pork. I could not tolerate this act as it is an insult for Islam. The hotel had been accorded the HALAL certificate and your act is absolutely contravene the said certification.
Baca surat perletakan jawatan pengadu: Notice of Resignation-THEPLAZAHOTEL
Bre-ad issue hits newspapers
sumber berita: The Star
PETALING JAYA: An online campaign against a bread company has prompted two companies to take up newspaper advertisements to clarify the issue.
While Gardenia Bakeries (KL) Sdn Bhd took up an ad to deny that it is a “crony company”, FFM Bhd, which makes a rival product, has claimed that it was not behind the “boycott Gardenia” campaign.
FFM’s management stressed that the company had not endorsed any write-up which urged consumers to refrain from buying its competitor’s products.
“There are articles circulating in various media that have urged consumers to prefer our product against that of our competitor.
“FFM wishes to distance itself from these articles and would like to stress that we are in no way responsible for these articles nor do we endorse the articles nor the attendant publicity,” FFM Bhd said in a full-page advertisement yesterday.
It also noted that the company had always believed that businesses should be allowed to operate in a fair and equitable manner that permitted free enterprise and competition.
“We have been fortunate to be able to compete in a market that shares these values,” said FFM.
An online campaign surfaced last month against Gardenia Bakeries, accusing it of being a “crony company”. The anti-Gardenia campaign also called on consumers to support rival bread company Massimo, owned by FFM.
In its advertisement, Gardenia Bakeries said it was a “myth” that it was a crony company.
“We proudly have Bernas as our bumiputra partner since 2001 in accordance with the Industrial Coordination Act. We take pride in this fact and even display this for all visitors to our factories to see.”
Gardenia Bakeries said that it purchased flour from Malayan Flour Mills Bhd and Prestasi Flour Mills (M) Sdn Bhd purely due to commercial reasons, adding that although Bernas had a stake in another flour mill, it had never been directed or coerced into buying flour from the mill.
“This speaks volume on the professionalism of the Bernas management,” the advertisement said.
The company stressed that it had never failed to make fresh products that were delivered daily, come rain or shine.
“This commitment and achievement is the envy of everyone, our competitors included.”
“This envy has resulted in the circulation of many malicious rumours and falsehood. However, underhanded tactics with racial and political overtones have been used. We all should not be a party to this exploitation and manipulation,” it said.
sumber: Kosmo
PENGGUNA perlu merujuk kepada pakar perubatan terlebih dahulu sebelum mengambil ubat-ubatan tradisional. - Gambar hiasan
DEWASA ini penggunaan ubat-ubatan tradisional dan komplementari (TCM) semakin mendapat kepercayaan berikutan kerancakan aktiviti penyelidikan dan kecanggihan teknologi yang digunakan pengeluar.
Ubat itu termasuk ubat tradisional Melayu dan Cina, selain rawatan ayurveda, homeopati dan akupuntur.
Bagaimanapun, bukan semua produk yang dikatakan ubat itu boleh menyembuhkan penyakit. Malah, banyak kes berkaitan ubat tradisional dan alternatif sebelum ini didapati mendatangkan mudarat.
Berdasarkan rekod Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia, sebanyak 11,885 produk TCM telah didaftarkan dengan Pihak Berkuasa Kawalan Dadah (PBKD) setakat ini.
Namun, pada tahun lepas, Biro Pengawalan Farmaseutikal Kebangsaan (BPFK) menerima 127 laporan kesan mudarat akibat penggunaan produk tradisional termasuk yang didaftarkan dengan PBKD.
Ujian
BPFK mengesan pelbagai produk tradisional yang dicemari dengan bahan terkawal atau racun berjadual seperti steroid, sibutramine (ubat langsing) dan sildenafil (ubat kuat lelaki).
Bahan-bahan terkawal itu berfungsi untuk menahan kesakitan selain bertindak melangsingkan badan seseorang. Ia juga didakwa mampu menambah kekuatan tenaga batin lelaki dan wanita.
Mengulas isu ini, Pengarah Pusat Racun Negara, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Prof. Madya Razak Lajis memberitahu, kebanyakan ubat tradisional dan alternatif tidak melalui fasa ujian klinikal bagi mengenal pasti produk tersebut selamat digunakan.
“Produk yang telah didaftarkan ini hanya melalui ujian keselamatan penting di BPFK seperti saringan steroid, logam berat dan bahan terlarang berdasarkan dakwaan khasiat oleh pengeluar atau pengedar.
“Dakwaan yang dinyatakan oleh pengeluar mungkin terhad kepada kajian ke atas haiwan, testimoni pengguna dan rujukan secara turun-temurun,” katanya.
Namun begitu, Razak menjelaskan tidak semua produk tradisional memberi kesan sampingan kepada pengguna.
“Sama seperti ubat-ubatan moden, ada yang memberi kesan sampingan dan ada yang tidak.
“Apa yang penting pengguna yang mengambil ubat ini perlu merujuk pakar perubatan terlebih dahulu,” katanya.
Beliau juga mengingatkan penghidap penyakit kronik seperti darah tinggi dan kencing manis bahawa rawatan moden dan tradisional hanya berfungsi untuk mengawal penyakit tersebut dan bukan memulihkannya.
JANGAN berhenti mengambil ubat-ubatan moden walaupun serasi dengan ubat-ubatan tradisional. – Gambar hiasan
Pakar
Katanya lagi, pesakit tidak harus berhenti daripada mengambil ubat-ubatan moden walaupun mereka sedang mencuba rawatan alternatif.
“Ini kerana ubat-ubatan tersebut dapat membantu mengelakkan penyakit tersebut daripada melarat.
“Ubat moden mesti diambil walaupun ubat tradisional terbabit mula menunjukkan kesan positif,” katanya.
Ujarnya lagi, ini bagi menggelakkan sebarang interaksi bahaya antara ubat-ubatan.
“Ubat tradisional berfungsi pada bahagian tertentu dalam badan sama seperti ubatan moden.
“Jika saling berinteraksi, ia mungkin mendatangkan bahaya pada individu itu selain mendedahkan pengguna kepada penyakit seperti kerosakan buah pinggang,” katanya.
Razak menambah, status kesihatan dan penyakit sedia ada adalah faktor yang mempengaruhi keberkesanan ubat tradisional.
“Sentiasa rujuk pada label dan kandungan ubat tersebut. Jika ragu-ragu, beli ubat tersebut di farmasi berdaftar,” katanya.
Seorang pakar farmasi dari Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Puncak Alam, Aida Azlina Ali, berkata bukan semua orang perlu mengambil ubat-ubatan tradisional.
“Jika seseorang telah mengamalkan diet yang sempurna dan berkhasiat, tubuh mereka tidak memerlukan ubat tersebut.
“Ini kerana pengambilan ubat tradisional tanpa mengikut keperluan boleh bertukar menjadi toksik yang membahayakan tubuh,” katanya.
Beliau turut menasihatkan mereka yang ingin mengambil produk TCM supaya bertanya kepada pakar perubatan sebelum menggunakannya.
“Mungkin ubat itu berkesan untuk jangka masa pendek sahaja. Teliti dahulu kandungannya serta rujuklah pakar.
“Selain itu, jangan sekali-kali meninggalkan ubat moden kerana kebanyakan ubat sebegini telah menjalani pelbagai ujian klinikal sebelum diluluskan,” katanya.
Sekadar memaklumkan kepada pembaca posting (kiriman) sebelum ini Masakan Cina Yang Halal Restoran Pak Ya yang menghidangkan masakan Cina yang autentik lagi halal, restoran ini telah berpindah ke tapak baru mulai bulan ini (Oktober 2011).
Makluman perpindahan semasa di tapak lama:
Tapak baru di Galaxy Ampang, Taman Dagang, hadapan Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah Ampang Jaya:
Tapak baru – ketika masih belum mula beroperasi.
Insha Allah – bila pergi menjamu nanti akan paparkan pula gambar dalamannya.
Peta lokasi:
Lokasi baru Restoran Pak Ya di Galaxy Ampang
sumber: Utusan Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR 15 Jun – Semua pemegang dan pemohon baru Sijil Halal Malaysia yang menggunakan produk HP Sauce dan Tabasco Pepper Sauce diarahkan menukarnya kepada produk lain yang memiliki sijil halal berikutan penemuan asid deoksiribonukleik (DNA) babi dalam produk berkenaan.
Menurut Pengarah Bahagian Hab Halal Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (Jakim), Sazali Harun, mereka juga diminta melakukan proses samak dan mengemukakan bukti surat akuan samak daripada Jabatan Agama Islam Negeri masing-masing kepada Jakim.
“Jakim sebelum ini telah mengambil sampel produk tersebut dan keputusan Jabatan Kimia Malaysia mengesahkan terdapat DNA babi di dalamnya.
“Mereka juga dikehendaki untuk mengemukakan resit pembelian produk baru kepada pihak kami,” katanya dalam satu kenyataan di sini hari ini.
Dalam kenyataan yang berasingan, beliau turut memberitahu, Sijil Pengesahan Halal Malaysia bagi Syarikat Lucky Food Processing Sdn. Bhd., ditarik balik berkuat kuasa serta-merta berikutan penemuan DNA babi dalam produk Chicken Burger Patties dan Chicken Taiwan Sausage keluarannya.
Penarikan sijil halal terhadap syarikat tersebut dilakukan berdasarkan keputusan mesyuarat Panel Pengesahan Halal Malaysia yang diadakan pada 22 April lalu.
Well, maybe I should rephrase … I felt almost cheated at Carrefour today.
I had been wanting to buy a power drill to replace my old one that was stolen several years ago. I had been scouting and comparing the various makes and models with a huge different in the price range.
Since my old one was Black and Decker, I decided to stick to the brand finally. Each time we do our grocery, I would always spent some time at the hardware or DIY area – like most man would do. When I went to Carrefour Wangsa Maju this evening, I did my usual ritual looking at the tools and stuffs at the hardware/auto/DIY area.
The shelf tag of B&D power drill that I had been targeting for is on promotion – tagged at RM199.00. Since there were only two sets left, I quickly took one and put in my trolley.
After checking out and made my payment I drove back home and only later do I checked that the receipt does not tally with the promotion price on the shelf tag. I paid for RM239.00. Thus, I have no choice but to drive again 8 km back to Carrefour.
I showed my receipt and complained the difference with what I saw at the shelf tag. The customer service staff asked their “roller” to verify my claim and said that they were right. Confident that I was right, I walked to the roller and showed him the price on the shelf was actually RM199.00 and not RM239.00.
To make the story short, after some argument, they had to acknowledge their mistake and readily refunded me the difference.
Though I get back the difference, I felt cheated because I have to spend effort, time and petrol to go back unnecessarily to Carrefour again just to get RM40 – and that it was Carrefour who “cheated” me with “false” price tag in the first place. They should consider all those rather being negligence and just simply apologise.
I was at the Customer Service for almost 25 minutes not including the time spent to drive back and forth along the busy MRR2. The total effort, time and material is even more that the difference refunded. After all it was my right in the first place to get the price shown on the tag.
Though all the staffs that handled my complain were nice to me and even gave me some token from the free gifts items behind the counter after I insisted my dissatisfaction despite being refunded, I pity the many other customers that walked out of Carrefour (and the same happened to me before at their other major competitor’s store before), paid the more than what they saw at the price tag and never bother to double check the mistakes made by these giant stores.
Are the consumers always at the disadvantage end?
sumber: http://www.halal.gov.my
JAKIM ingin memaklumkan bahawa produk ‘Minyak Sapi jenama QBB Pure Ghee’ keluaran Syarikat QBI Packaging Sdn. Bhd. adalah menepati konsep Halalan Toyiban dan dengan itu permohonan dari Syarikat QBI Packaging Sdn. Bhd. adalah DILULUSKAN mulai 01 November 2010.
Harap maklum.
Sebelum ini:
Carlos Slim Helu (Carlos Slim), a telecom tycoon and billionaire with well-known frugal tendencies, has a net worth of $60.6 billion, according to Forbes. Assuming no changes in his net worth, he could spend $1,150 a minute for the next 100 years before he ran out of money. To put this in perspective, he could spend in 13 minutes what a minimum-wage earner brings home after an entire year of the daily grind.
Granted, the world’s billionaires (all 1,011 of them) are in the debatably enviable position of having, quite literally, more money than they can possibly spend, yet some are still living well below their means, and save money in surprising places. Even non-billionaires (currently 6,864,605,142 of us) can partake in these seven spending tips from frugal billionaires:
1. Keep Your Home Simple
Billionaires can afford to live in the most exclusive mansions imaginable — and many do, including Bill Gates’ sprawling 66,000 square foot, $147.5 million dollar mansion in Medina, Wash. — yet frugal billionaires like Warren Buffett choose to keep it simple. Buffett still lives in the five-bedroom house in Omaha that he purchased in 1957 for $31,500. Likewise, Carlos Slim has lived in the same house for more than 40 years.
2. Use Self-Powered or Public Transportation
Thrifty billionaires including John Caudwell, David Cheriton and Chuck Feeney prefer to walk, bike or use public transportation when getting around town. Certainly these wealthy individuals could afford to take a helicopter to their lunch meetings, or ride in chauffeur-driven Bentleys, but they choose to get a little exercise and take advantage of public transportation instead. Good for the bank account and great for the environment.
3. Buy Your Clothes off the Rack
While some people, regardless of their net value, place a huge emphasis on wearing designer clothes and shoes, some frugal billionaires decide it’s simply not worth the effort, or expense. You can find David Cheriton, the Stanford professor who matched Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page to the venture capitalists at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers (resulting in a large reward of Google stock), wearing jeans and a t-shirt.
Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of the furniture company Ikea, avoids wearing suits, and John Caudwell, mobile phone mogul, buys his clothes off the rack instead of spending his wealth on designer clothes.
4. Keep your Scissors Sharp
The average haircut costs about $45, but people can and do spend up to $800 per cut and style. Multiply that by 8.6 (to account for a cut every six weeks) and it adds up to $7,200 per year, not including tips. These billionaires can certainly afford the most stylish haircuts, buy many cannot be bothered by the time it takes or the high price tag for the posh salons. Billionaires like John Caudwell and David Cheriton opt for cutting their own hair at home.
5. Drive a Regular Car
While billionaires like Larry Ellison (co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation) enjoy spending millions on cars, boats and planes, others remain low key with their vehicles of choice. Jim Walton (of the Wal-Mart clan) drives a 15-year-old pickup truck. Azim Premji, an Indian business tycoon, reportedly drives a Toyota Corolla. And Ingvar Kamprad of Ikea drives a 10-year-old Volvo. The idea is to buy a dependable car, and drive it into the ground. No need for a different car each day of the week for these frugal billionaires.
6. Skip Luxury Items
It may surprise some of us, but the world’s wealthiest person, Carlos Slim (the one who could spend more than a thousand dollars a minute and not run out of money for one hundred years) does not own a yacht or a plane. (Reducing the amount you spend is the easiest way to make your money grow.)
Many other billionaires have chosen to skip these luxury items. Warren Buffett also avoids these lavish material items, stating, “Most toys are just a pain in the neck.”
What We Can Learn
Some of the world’s billionaires have frugal tendencies. Perhaps this thrifty nature even helped them make some of their money. Regardless, they have chosen to avoid some unnecessary spending (at least on their scale) and the 6,864,605,142 non-billionaires out there can follow suit, eliminating excessive, keep-up-with-the-Jones style spending. No matter what a person’s income bracket is, most can usually find a way to cut back on frivolous spending, just like a few frugal billionaires.
article from http://finance.yahoo.com
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