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There were 44,223 food premises registered in 2017. This number consists of 1,840 food factories,
4,616 premises which are involved in food catering, 33,599 food outlets, 135 vehicles which sell ready-
to-eat food and 4033 other food premises as shown in Table 1.

Table 1
Registration of Food Premises from 2012 to 2017
Year
No Category
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
1. Factories 2,139 3,071 1,843 1,932 1,114 1,840
2. Premises involved in 1,403 2,297 1,524 1,057 1,113 4,616
food catering
3. Food outlets 21,071 38,670 33,580 17,554 12,777 33,599
4. Vehicles selling 177 667 609 243 230 135
ready-to-eat food
5. Other food premises - - - 2479 477 4033
Total 24,790 44,705 37,556 23,265 15,711 44,223

Source: Food Safety and Quality Programme, MoH
In 2017, a total of 31,289 food samples were taken for analysis and 1073 (3.43 per cent) of them
contravened certain requirements under the Food Act 1983 and Food Regulations 1985 (Figure 2). A
total of 156 sellers/food manufacturers who contravened provisions under the Food Act 1983 and Food
Regulations 1985 were prosecuted and fines amounting to RM132,949 were collected.

Figure 2
Food Sampling 2012 to 2017

Source: Food Safety and Quality Programme, MoH

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