Isu Golden Churn di Sarawak

Isu mentega yang menjadi topik hangat di bulan Ramadan kini jelas apabila diharamkan di seluruh negara.  Walaupun di negara jiran masih mengsahkan halal maka sampel tersebut perlu dinilai bersama memandangkan Golden Churn sudah menjadi sebati dengan masakan kek apabila tiba musim perayaan.

Semoga dengan penjelasan di bawah maka kita akan bebas dari was-was untuk menggunakan mentega alternatif lain yang berada di pasaran.  Selamat mencuba!!!

Pengharaman Golden Churn menyeluruh

by Adib Othman. Posted Utusan Borneo on August 13, 2011, Saturday

Haram di seluruh negara, bukan seperti dakwaan pengeluar masih dijual di Semenanjung

KUCHING: Menteri Muda di Pejabat Ketua Menteri (Hal Ehwal Islam) Datuk Daud Abdul Rahman semalam mengesahkan bahawa pengharaman mentega Golden Churn adalah melibatkan seluruh negara.

Beliau berkata demikian ketika menyangkal kenyataan pihak pengeluar yang mendakwa produk tersebut masih dijual di Semenanjung Malaysia dengan logo halal.

“Penarikan adalah sah melibatkan seluruh Malaysia dan bukan hanya Sarawak tetapi mereka hanya menarik produk Golden Churn yang dikeluarkan dari kilang New Zealand,” katanya semalam.

Beliau berkata demikian ketika mengadakan sidang media berkenaan Majlis Sambutan Nuzul Al-Quran Peringkat Negeri Sarawak, di sini semalam.

Kelmarin, Pengurus Besar Ballantyne Foods Pty Ltd (Ballantyne) Hemmet N. Nasrallah bagi pihak pengeluar mentega tersebut mendakwa bahawa status halal hanya diragui di Sarawak dan tidak di tempat lain di Malaysia.

Beliau turut berkata bahawa negara-negara jiran iaitu Singapura dan Brunei sudah membuat ujian terhadap mentega tersebut dan keputusan ternyata negatif DNA babi.

Bagaimanapun, tegas Daud, mentega Golden Churn yang diharamkan adalah mentega jenis tin yang dikeluarkan oleh kilang di New Zealand manakala mentega beku untuk jenama yang sama yang dibuat di Australia tidak ada sebarang masalah.

Mentega yang diharamkan keluaran New Zealand

Mentega Halal Keluaran Australia

Pada masa yang sama, beliau berkata bahawa bukanlah niat Jabatan Agama Islam Sarawak (JAIS) mengharamkan mentega Golden Churn untuk menyusahkan banyak pihak terutama pengusaha kek lapis.

Katanya pihaknya hanya menjalankan tanggungjawab untuk memastikan produk yang digunakan oleh masyarakat Islam di negeri ini benar-benar halal tanpa keraguan.

Posted the Star Aug 12, 2011

Golden Churn importer to keep trying to meet Daud

KUCHING: Hemmat S. Nasrallah, the regional general manager of Ballantyne Foods Pty Ltd which imports Golden Churn butter, says he will make frequent trips to Sarawak until he gets to meet Assistant Minister in the Chief’s Minister’s Department (Islamic Affairs) Datuk Daud Abdul Rahman.

“I flew here today (yesterday) to meet Datuk Daud, but I was told he was away,” said Hemmat here yesterday.

“I will keep coming back until I meet him.”

Hemmat told a press conference that Golden Churn butter was suitable for consumption by Muslims and the company “fully believes in quality control”.

He said that foreign authorities had no problems with the product being sold elsewhere, citing Singapore, Brunei and Australia as examples.

He said he was here to meet local authorities and not for commercial reasons because the matter involved a religious issue.

Earlier at the press conference, Hemmat said he hoped that tinned Golden Churn butter would be back on sale as a halal product by next Hari Raya.

The Golden Churn butter that Ballantyne Foods imports comes in two forms.

One is manufactured and tinned in New Zealand (the one found by Sarawakian authorities to contain porcine DNA) while the other is manufactured in Australia and sold as frozen cubes.

The frozen butter continues to be deemed as halal by state authorities.

Tetapi di negara jiran kita iaitu Brunei Darussalam, mentega Golden Churn didapati halal.  

Sumber Borneo Bulletin

Golden Churn Butter is halal

Posted on Borneo Bulletin,

By Danial Norjidi Aug 11, 2011

The Ministry of Religious Affairs announced this yesterday in a press statement, confirming that the popular butter product is safe for consumption by Muslims in Brunei.

"The Ministry of Religious Affairs of Brunei Darussalam would like to inform the public, especially the Muslim community in this country, that the Islamic Religious Council of Brunei Darussalam conducted a meeting on Thursday, August 11 to discuss the status of Golden Churn Pure Creamery Butter," read the statement.

"After evaluating the reports made by the Department of Scientific Services, Ministry of Health (MoH), which analysed 17 samples collected from all four districts, including samples from a neighbouring country, the results of the analysis on all samples have shown that Golden Churn Pure Creamery Butter is free from pig DNA," it added.

Based on this analysis, Brunei Islamic Religious Council has concluded that all Golden Churn Butter products currently distributed in Brunei Darussalam are free from pig DNA and can now be consumed by members of the public including Muslims.

The announcement follows a statement made by the ministry last Saturday, which advised Muslims to avoid using Golden Churn Butter until further information was released following conflicting reports regarding its status.

A previous analysis by the MoH's Department of Scientific Services and subsequent report issued on July 25, said there was no pig DNA detected in the butter product. This and an initial investigation by the Halal Food Control Division of the Department of Syariah Affairs resulted in the product being deemed safe and halal for Muslims in the country.

The Malaysian media then published conflicting reports on the matter, with some confirming the halal status while others claimed that the product contained pig DNA.

The Brunei Ministry of Religious Affairs's announcement yesterday, however, confirms that that Golden Churn Pure Creamery Butter is halal, and can be consumed by Muslims in Brunei.

Speaking to the Bulletin, Mr Tay Wee Lee, Managing Director of Ad East Marketing Sdn Bhd, the main distributor of Golden Churn Butter products in Brunei, expressed his delight at the announcement.

"We are very pleased with the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Ministry of Health's Department of Scientific Services decision," he said. "They did comprehensive tests on Golden Churn Butter, they tested it thoroughly, and their results have shown that it is completely halal for Muslims to consume.

"This has been a household brand for many a generation, and we are very happy that customers can now use Golden Churn with peace of mind, especially with Hari Raya round the corner when Golden Churn will be used a lot," he added.

He admitted that business was affected after last week's reports, but said that while their customers had been holding back on buying the butter, they had remained loyal, and that they had been calling Ad East Marketing to place "huge orders" on the Golden Churn Butter products yesterday in preparation for Hari Raya.

"Our customers can be safe in the knowledge that what they're buying is a product that is safe to consume," he added.

MoCS Kecut Apabila Diabaikan oleh Salleh Jaafaruddin!!???

Objektif utama MoCS masih jelas iaitu untuk menggesa Ketua Menteri Sarawak terus berundur dari arena politik!!??  Tetapi kenapa mereka membatalkan hasrat untuk berhimpun di saat akhir?!! 

Mungkin disebabkan oleh isu dibawah di mana Datuk Salleh yang merupakan penyumbang besar kepada pergerakan ini yang mahu Ketua Menteri Sarawak berundur tidak berada di Kuching untuk membela ahli-ahli MoCS yang ditangkap kelak!!!????  Adakah Francis Siah tidak mempercayai Datuk Salleh menyebabkan dia menarik balik agenda untuk berhimpun??!!  Francis Siah mahupun Baharuddin atau Awang Abdillah tidak mampu untuk menjamin ahli-ahli yang ditangkap atas sebab perhimpunan haram, lebih-lebih lagi apabila melibatkan ahli SNAP yang sememangnya mata duitan dan turun berhimpun hanya untuk mendapatkan habuan?!!!

 Sumber MoCS

MoCS batal hasrat adakan perhimpunan

Posted on August 13, 2011, Saturday

KUCHING: Perhimpunan bertemakan ‘Berjalan Untuk Demokrasi dan Reformasi’, juga digelar ‘Perarakan Merah’ yang dijadualkan pada jam 2 petang ini dibatalkan.

Mengumumkan perkara itu di sini malam tadi, ketua Gerakan Mengubah Sarawak (MoCS) Francis Paul Siah berkata, pergerakan itu meletakkan keselamatan awam sebagai keutamaan.

“Sebagai penganjur, MoCS bertanggungjawab terhadap para peserta. Kami tidak mahu melihat sesiapa cedera di jalanan. Kami juga tidak mahu melihat ada orang ditahan kerana menyertai perarakan,” katanya.

Siah berkata, beliau telah berjumpa dengan Timbalan Pesuruhjaya Polis Sarawak Datuk Law Hong Soon petang semalam dan bersetuju untuk menerima nasihat beliau tentang ketenteraman dan keselamatan awam.

“Ia adalah pertemuan yang menggalakkan dan saya mendengar nasihat beliau. Saya kini dapat menerima bahawa dalam kes 13 Ogos ini, tindakan polis setakat ini adalah demi kepentingan keselamatan awam dan bukan untuk kepentingan ahli politik. Ia juga sangat penting kepada kami,” katanya.