KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry has directed the distributors of tapioca starch pearls, which were imported from the Wang Tai Company in Taiwan, to withdraw the food product from the Malaysian market and dispose of them as they contain maleic acid.
Senior Food Safety and Quality Director Noraini Mohd Othman said that so far 66 samples of tapioca balls or tapioca pearls, noodles, dried mihun and tapioca starch which were taken from the local market had been analysed.
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