Guaranteeing safer consumption of nutraceutical products in Malaysia: must it always be on the government?

Nutraceutical products have become widespread phenomenon for proclaimed benefits they seem to offer. To define what nutraceutical is has always been confusing in certain jurisdictions especially Malaysia. Legally, they cannot be considered as mere food, and they are not pharmaceutical drugs either....

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Main Authors:	Abdul Ghani Azmi, Ida Madieha, Abd. Jalil, Juriah, Ismail, Suzi Fadhilah, Daud, Mahyuddin
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2017
Subjects:	K Law (General) KPG Malaysia
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/58364/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/58364/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/58364/1/langkawi%20paper%20sahida.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/58364/12/58364_tentative.pdf

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spelling	iium-583642017-09-19T00:57:40Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/58364/ Guaranteeing safer consumption of nutraceutical products in Malaysia: must it always be on the government? Abdul Ghani Azmi, Ida Madieha Abd. Jalil, Juriah Ismail, Suzi Fadhilah Daud, Mahyuddin K Law (General) KPG Malaysia Nutraceutical products have become widespread phenomenon for proclaimed benefits they seem to offer. To define what nutraceutical is has always been confusing in certain jurisdictions especially Malaysia. Legally, they cannot be considered as mere food, and they are not pharmaceutical drugs either. Due to uncertainty in its categorisation, manufacturing and product delivery processes have become easier for nutraceutical manufacturers. They have made numerous health claims that were not based on clinical evidence and there is no legal requirement for such. Although some consumers have benefited from the products, established research suggested that consumers could risks their health through long-term consumption. Hence, this paper intends to discover regulatory issues and challenges encountered by the National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Authority (NPRA) and the Food Safety and Quality Division (FSQD) under the Ministry of Health Malaysia in regulating nutraceutical products – from production to marketing processes to ensure safer consumption. Focus group discussions have been conducted with officers from NPRA and FSQD, which led to the following results. This paper finds two intriguing discovery namely: - (1) there is an ineffective self-regulatory framework governing nutraceutical industry in Malaysia as both agencies aforementioned have no effective control particularly in key areas such as enforcement, product labelling, and advertising. Secondly, the paper also finds lack of awareness and knowledge on safe production amongst nutraceutical manufacturers – which could be reflected on the products they produce and may threatens consumers in the longer run. It seems that in the Malaysian atmosphere, governmental intervention may be highly required to guarantee safer consumption of nutraceutical products – so that consumers may truly benefit from them. Self-regulation as practiced may have made the nutraceutical industry too complacent hence have placed consumers’ safety at stake. 2017-07-29 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/58364/1/langkawi%20paper%20sahida.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/58364/12/58364_tentative.pdf Abdul Ghani Azmi, Ida Madieha and Abd. Jalil, Juriah and Ismail, Suzi Fadhilah and Daud, Mahyuddin (2017) Guaranteeing safer consumption of nutraceutical products in Malaysia: must it always be on the government? In: International Conference on Education, Business, Islamic and Technology 2017 (ICEBIT 2017), 29th-30th July 2017, Langkawi, Kedah. (Unpublished) https://submit.confbay.com/conf/icebit2017
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spellingShingle	K Law (General) KPG Malaysia Abdul Ghani Azmi, Ida Madieha Abd. Jalil, Juriah Ismail, Suzi Fadhilah Daud, Mahyuddin Guaranteeing safer consumption of nutraceutical products in Malaysia: must it always be on the government?
description	Nutraceutical products have become widespread phenomenon for proclaimed benefits they seem to offer. To define what nutraceutical is has always been confusing in certain jurisdictions especially Malaysia. Legally, they cannot be considered as mere food, and they are not pharmaceutical drugs either. Due to uncertainty in its categorisation, manufacturing and product delivery processes have become easier for nutraceutical manufacturers. They have made numerous health claims that were not based on clinical evidence and there is no legal requirement for such. Although some consumers have benefited from the products, established research suggested that consumers could risks their health through long-term consumption. Hence, this paper intends to discover regulatory issues and challenges encountered by the National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Authority (NPRA) and the Food Safety and Quality Division (FSQD) under the Ministry of Health Malaysia in regulating nutraceutical products – from production to marketing processes to ensure safer consumption. Focus group discussions have been conducted with officers from NPRA and FSQD, which led to the following results. This paper finds two intriguing discovery namely: - (1) there is an ineffective self-regulatory framework governing nutraceutical industry in Malaysia as both agencies aforementioned have no effective control particularly in key areas such as enforcement, product labelling, and advertising. Secondly, the paper also finds lack of awareness and knowledge on safe production amongst nutraceutical manufacturers – which could be reflected on the products they produce and may threatens consumers in the longer run. It seems that in the Malaysian atmosphere, governmental intervention may be highly required to guarantee safer consumption of nutraceutical products – so that consumers may truly benefit from them. Self-regulation as practiced may have made the nutraceutical industry too complacent hence have placed consumers’ safety at stake.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Abdul Ghani Azmi, Ida Madieha Abd. Jalil, Juriah Ismail, Suzi Fadhilah Daud, Mahyuddin
author_facet	Abdul Ghani Azmi, Ida Madieha Abd. Jalil, Juriah Ismail, Suzi Fadhilah Daud, Mahyuddin
author_sort	Abdul Ghani Azmi, Ida Madieha
title	Guaranteeing safer consumption of nutraceutical products in Malaysia: must it always be on the government?
title_short	Guaranteeing safer consumption of nutraceutical products in Malaysia: must it always be on the government?
title_full	Guaranteeing safer consumption of nutraceutical products in Malaysia: must it always be on the government?
title_fullStr	Guaranteeing safer consumption of nutraceutical products in Malaysia: must it always be on the government?
title_full_unstemmed	Guaranteeing safer consumption of nutraceutical products in Malaysia: must it always be on the government?
title_sort	guaranteeing safer consumption of nutraceutical products in malaysia: must it always be on the government?
publishDate	2017
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/58364/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/58364/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/58364/1/langkawi%20paper%20sahida.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/58364/12/58364_tentative.pdf
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