November 3, 2022
Singapore suspends imports of live chicken broilers from two Malaysian farms
The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) has suspended imports of live chicken broilers from Meng Kee Poultry (M) Sdn Bhd and Sdian Hup Farming Sdn Bhd after detecting Salmonella enteritidis in samples from their shipments, The Edge reported.
On October 11, Malaysia lifted its export restriction on live chicken broilers to Singapore. Due to issues with chicken supply and pricing in the nation, the Malaysian government had previously banned the export of up to 3.6 million chickens beginning on June 1.
Singapore imports 34% of its chicken from Malaysia, almost entirely as live birds that are then butchered and chilled locally.
Based in Malaysian state of Johor, Mee Kee Poultry and Sdian Hup Farming have operations in the areas of Yong Peng and Pontian, respectively.
According to the company website, Mee Kee Poultry is a division of Kee Song Bio-Technology Holdings Ltd, a business that has been listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange since 2011.
Since its founding in 1987, Kee Song and its affiliates have provided fresh and frozen chicken products to Singaporean restaurants and bars.
Meng Kee Poultry and Prestige Fortune Sdn Bhd are exporters of live chicken broilers on behalf of Sdian Hup Farming, according to a Singapore Food Agency list of chicken farms authorised to export live broilers to Singapore.
The website for Prestige Fortune showed that the business was founded in Singapore in the 1970s. It stated that the company had received official registration as a private limited company (Sdn Bhd) in Malaysia in 1990.
Prestige Fortune representative Irene Jocelyn said that the business had not been suspended for exporting live chicken broilers into Singapore.
Irene said she would like to make it absolutely clear that we are not one of the companies that have been suspended.
- The Edge
