THE Food and Drug Administration under the Ministry of Health will check blended oil to ensure food safety for the consumers.
The rules regarding production, storage, transport and distribution of the blended oil were announced on 29 March 2024. The blended vegetable oil must be a mixture of only two types of oil containing 40 per cent of vegetable oil. They are prohibited to add artificial flavour, animal oil and raw cotton seed oil.
Oil crops such as peanut, sesame, sunflower, niger and oil palm are cultivated in the country. Some locally produced blended oil of inferior quality are found in the market. Thus, FDA will combat those low-quality cooking oil containing harmful substances to ensure food safety for the consumers.
Myanmar has a growing demand of 1.1 million tonnes of cooking oil per year. Beyond domestic production, about 900,000 tonnes of oil are yearly imported. — ASH/KK
