Tag Archives: Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority

On Tuesday (Jan 31), NTUC Fairprice took to social media to assure customers that the FairPrice house brand jasmine fragrant rice is NOT made of plastic. This was to counter the false information that had been circulating on social media which alleged otherwise.

31 January 2017: In Nov 2016, the Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) announced plans to enhance the pet dog licensing regime. The objective is to (a) improve the traceability of pet dogs in Singapore, especially in the event of a disease outbreak such as rabies, (b) discourage pet abandonment, and (c) help reunite lost dogs with their owners. The relevant regulations have been amended today, and the new licensing regime will take effect from 1 March 2017.

23 August 2016 : The Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority (AVA) received feedback from a member of the public on 18 August 2016 regarding a metal nut found in a bar of “King’s Potong Red Bean Ice Confection”. To ensure food safety, AVA has been working with the importer to investigate the matter.

Our reader has pointed out a terrible mistake printed on a Pet Care booklet distributed by the Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority. Read her complaint here. Dear Admin Someone visited Pet Expo yesterday I was informed of a “HORRIBLE MISTAKE ” on Pet Care Handbook ” TRIMMING OF CLAWS ” of …

According to one "Aileen Tan", she discovered a PRC shop called Song Hua Jiang Restaurant selling braised dog meat on their menu. The address of the restaurant: Blk 350 Jurong East Ave 1 #01-1233 S(600350). She asked SPCA whether the sale of dog meat is legal in Singapore. She also posted a link to the menu of the restaurant which allegedly sells the dog meat item in its menu. Another concerned reader has also contributed a photo of the offensive menu item.

Raw pork from Malaysia is back in markets here, marking the end of an import ban on the product for more than a decade. The Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority (AVA) recently approved the import of frozen pork from one slaughterhouse in Sarawak.