Food Safety: Clean, Safety, and Healthy

Recognition of Bess or “Clean, Safety and Healthy” has been enforced to all food premises trader in Malaysia in 2012 and currently regulated under the enforcement of Food Safety and Quality Department, Ministry of Health and Nutritional Department, Public Health Office, Ministry of Health in which it is fully supported by several related agencies such as Ministry of Domestic Trades, Co-Operatives and Consumerisms (KPDNKK), local authorities, Agricultural Department, FAMA, and Islamic Religion Department etc. This recognition program is an effective effort that has been implemented by the Ministry of Health in order to encourage all food premises trader in the country to provide and sell the food which must guaranteed to be securely, healthy and nourishing to all customers. The implementation of these guidelines is part of an improvisation against current monitoring programs that has been enforced to all food premises in the country through the Ministry of Health. Generally, there are four main criteria which must be compiled by the trader of food premises before successfully elicit this recognition certificate to the operational activities and services of their own food premise. The main four criteria are consists of perpetuating hygiene level to their own premise, providing safety and healthy food and providing the food in an accurate serving size amount in accordance to the needs of an individual. In order to acquiring this recognition certificate to their own food premise with the aim to enhance the cleanliness images of the food operator itself for the virtues of their customers effectively, all food premises trader must conform two main components meticulously as prescribed in the guidelines of BeSS recognition for th...

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...od premises trader that has been enshrined under Food Act 1983 and Food Regulations 1985 which included issuing the notice of closure for food premise, instructing the food premise to undertaking hygienic and sanitary works and also carry out any inspection of the food sold by the food premise which included the rights of procuring the samples of any food with the purpose of analysis to guarantee the highest levels of consumer health and safety on the food that has been consumed. Besides that, the court has the rights under these two acts to convict the accused with heavier fines and penalties, longer imprisonment periods or both on those offences. The court also has the rights to suspend or withdraw any operational licensed issued to the accused and order for the foods that sold by the accused to be disposed and withdrawn from the sales to the customer immediately.