Health Ministry monitoring sale of small pineapples for cyclamate


KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry has increased monitoring of small pineapples or "baby pineapples" to ensure that the fruit imported into the country does not contain artificial sweeteners like cyclamate.

The ministry’s Food Safety and Quality Division senior director Norrani Eksan, in a statement, said her division had been monitoring since 2017.

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