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40pc of Kelantan bazaar food contaminated Posted: 16 Aug 2011 06:54 PM PDT 2011/08/17 By Nik Imran Abdullah, Elvina Fernandez and Atiqa Hazellah news@nst.com.my Traders selling sugarcane drinks must keep the sugarcanes in storage containers and not leave them lying on the ground. — NST picture by Aizuddin Saad KOTA BARU: The state Health Department said 40 per cent of food in Ramadan bazaars are contaminated with bacteria that cause food poisoning. Deputy director Dr Wan Mansor Hamzah said it had found e.coli, coliform, staphylococcus and bacillus in kuih and other food samples taken from bazaars when it began monitoring them at the start of Ramadan. He said the contamination had reached a level that could trigger food poisoning. "The contamination is a sign of food handlers' poor personal hygiene," he said yesterday It was reported that 15 food poisoning cases, involving 550 people, had been reported nationwide since the start of Ramadan. Dr Wan Mansor said the bacteria could be transferred to food through dirty cooking utensils and unhygienic surroundings where the food was prepared and sold. However, he said, there were no food poisoning cases that could be linked to eating contaminated food from hawker stalls. "If we can establish that dirty food caused food poisoning in consumers, we can take food handlers to court." He said health officers would continue advising food handlers and hawkers of the need to maintain a high standard of hyg iene. Director-general of Health Datuk Dr Hasan Abdul Rahman urged traders to be hy - gienic when preparing food and drinks. In preparing sugarcane drinks, he said, traders should wash sugarcanes first, but most did not do this. "Placing sugarcanes on the ground is not a good practice, unless traders clean them first before processing them," Dr Hasan told the New Straits Times yesterday. He said traders should keep sugarcanes in a storage container and not leave them in the open as they might attract flies and other pests. He added that district health officers would advise traders on food safety and hyg iene. "And, if required by local authorities, our officers will join their teams during inspections and enforcement checks." Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

RM200m polls plan Posted: 16 Aug 2011 06:50 PM PDT 2011/08/17 By Farrah Naz Karim farrah@nst.com.my Company proposes biometric system to Election Commission PUTRAJAYA: A company is proposing a RM200 million biometric system for use in the general election to the Election Commission. However, several parties, including government agencies, are strongly resisting the proposal, which the commission is studying. The New Straits Times learnt that the company would provide the commission with 25,000 Netbooks and 25,000 Dermalog fingerprint devices. It will also provide a centralised back-end system for biometric verification and voting system with workflows. The company is offering to convert fingerprint images to its Dermalog biometric template. It will provide the commission with 14 million citizens' records containing fingerprint images, portraits and demographic data, which it intends to download from the National Registration Department's database. However, the department, which is the custodian of the personal records of Malaysians, is averse to this plan. NRD said conversions to the Dermalog template would mean a drop in quality when compared with the quality of the Morpho template used in its d at a b a s e . It insisted that EC use the Morpho template as it matched the template for MyKad. Industry sources said the devices and system from the company would not be able to verify templates or minutiae (branching points of fingerprint ridge lines) in MyKad, despite being able to read MyKad information. It is learnt that another company is hoping to be picked for the project and had in April quoted EC a price of RM300 million. However, it recently revised this to RM160 million. It is also understood that a third company had submitted a proposal, saying its system would cost less than a quarter of the cost quoted by other companies. It offered 2,500 Netbooks and readers. This company said its devices could read all minutiae verification of the Morpho template in MyKad. A source said: "The EC workflow is a proven system and the introduction of biometrics is only for identification pur poses." The source said the government could save cost by allowing EC to use devices supplied for the scrapped petrol subsidy-control mechanism. The third company said it would ensure the use of these devices was made possible. The devices, all 6,000 units with a display terminal, had not been used since the petrol subsidy schemewas scrapped. The company is on the same wavelength with NRD on MyKad being the source for identification. It said people with defective MyKad chips would have to change them before the general election. NRD intends to replace its MyKad chips with higher quality ones from Januar y. NRD sources expressed concern about a private company being allowed to extract personal data. They said even in cases where the courts subpoenaed details of citizens, NRD officials would take the citizens' documents to the courts to protect the information. A NRD spokesman said it was still studying all the proposals. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

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