Mentega Mengandungi DNA Babi

 Mentega mengandungi DNA babi

KUALA LUMPUR - Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (Jakim) mengesahkan mentega jenama ‘Pure Creamery Butter-Golden Churn’ yang dipasarkan di Malaysia adalah tidak halal.

Ketua Pengarahnya, Othman Mustapha berkata, keputusan itu dibuat selepas, mendapati produk itu datang dari kilang yang sama dengan yang diedarkan di Sarawak walaupun pengimportnya berbeza.

“Perkara ini disahkan wakil syarikat Ballantyne Food dari New Zealand. Berikutan itu, umat Islam diminta tidak menggunakan produk tersebut,” katanya dalam satu kenya­taan di sini.

Othman juga meminta pemegang dan permohonan baru Sijil Pengesahan Halal dari Jakim atau jabatan agama Islam negeri yang menggunakan produk tersebut, menukarnya kepada yang mempunyai sijil halal serta mengemukakan resit pembelian bahan ramuan baru.

Othman berkata, perkara itu telah dimaklumkan kepada syarikat pengimport dan mereka bersetuju menarik balik produk terbabit dari pasaran.

Pada 19 Julai lepas, Jabatan Agama Islam Sarawak mengisytiharkan produk itu yang digunakan segelintir pengusaha kek lapis sebagai tidak halal kerana dikesan mengandungi DNA (asid deoksiribonukleik) babi, menyebabkan industri makanan itu terjejas.- Bernama

Jakim: Golden Churn Butter is non-halal

 The product is declared non-halal after it was found to contain pig DNA.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Islamic Development Department of Malaysia (Jakim) today confirmed that the ‘Pure Creamery Butter-Golden Churn’ sold in Malaysia is non-halal.

Its director-general, Othman Mustapha, said the decision was made after finding that the product came from the same factory as that distributed in Sarawak, although there were brought into the country by different importers.

“This was confirmed by the agent of Ballantyne Food, from New Zealand, which manufactures the product.

“Therefore, Muslims should not use the product,” he said in a statement here today.

Last July 19, the Sarawak Islamic Religious Department had declared the product non-halal after it was found to contain pig DNA.

Othman said the company had been informed of the matter and it had agreed to withdraw the product from the shelves.

He said the decision was made after discussing the matter with the Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry, the Chemistry Department, the Health Ministry’s Food Safety and Quality Division, the Sarawak Islamic Religious Department and the Johor Islamic Religious Department on Aug 8.

With the product being confirmed non-halal, he advised holders and new applicants of the halal certificate who use the product to change it with other type of butter which is certified halal and to keep the purchase receipt of the new product as proof.

They are also required to carry out a ritual cleansing process by using clay soil and water, known as ‘samak’, and it has to be witnessed by the Islamic Religious Department in the respective states, he added.

-Bernama