Additional cooking oil quota

Kota Kinabalu: The availability of cooking oil on the shelves still boils down to the trend of consumers buying with or without the additional quota for cooking oil. "I was made to understand the additional quota for cooking oil will be enforced soon and we hope this would reduce issues concerning cooking oil supply," said Community Development and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Jainab Ahmad.

"I am not sure how much has been added to the quota, I think this would better be referred to the Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism Ministry.

"But I would like to remind consumers that the additional quota is not a reason to buy a large quantity of cooking oil," she said when officiating at the closing ceremony of SM All Saints 67th annual sports event here on Thursday.

"Recently I received a message via Short Messaging System from Giant that they have received their supply of bottled cooking oil.

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"But it all comes down to the consumers, if for example, each consumer keeps buying 10 packets of cooking oil in a single receipt and keeps it at home, then there is bound to be supply chain issues," she said when asked if the additional quota for cooking oil has been implemented.

She called on consumers to be responsible in their spending when it comes to cooking oil, adding that apart from having the additional quota for cooking oil, they have also started allowing the sale of cooking oil in the weekly 'tamu' and the Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority's (Fama), for example.

Meanwhile, State Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism Ministry Director Yahya Sulaiman confirmed that there is additional quota for cooking oil.

He however did not disclose how much was added, saying that it will be announced later.

The cooking oil shortage was first reported late last year although most of these involved the 1kg subsidised cooking oil packets. The commodity retails at RM2.50 each.

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However, the problem spiralled out of control especially in the West Coast with even the more expensive 5kg cooking oil, sold at more than RM20 each, and imported cooking oil costing more than RM30 per bottle, were snapped up as soon as they were put on the shelves.

On rare occasions that the 1kg cooking oil packets are made available in supermarkets, people would form long beelines just to get their two packet quota of the cooking oil. - Sherell Ann Jeffrey

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