Menteri: Tiada laporan kesihatan untuk dakwat kekal...
Menteri Kesihatan Datuk Seri Dr S Subramaniam berkata kementeriannya
tidak pernah menyediakan sebarang laporan kesihatan berhubung dakwat
kekal dan Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya juga tidak pernah meminta kementerian
berbuat demikian,
Subramaniam berkata demikian ketika ditanya jika peratusan bahan aktif dalam dakwat itu – argentum nitrat – perlu dicairkan kepada satu peratus untuk mengurangkan risiko barah.
"Saya
tak pasti, anda perlu tanya SPR tentang ini. Jika anda mahu tahu jika
mereka ada minta kami sedia laporan demikian, seingat saya tiada..."Kalau mereka (SPR) pernah minta dan kami pernah sediakan laporan itu, pasti ceritanya lain tetapi, saya kurang pasti, kami boleh semak perkara ini," katanya dalam satu sidang media hari ini.
Beliau mengulas kenyataan Ketua Penerangan Umno Datuk Ahmad Maslan yang mendakwa kandungan argentum nitrat dalam dakwat kekal itu terpaksa dikurangkan.
Ahmad mendakwa pengurangan tersebut menyebabkan ia hanya mampu bertahan selama sepuluh jam sahaja kerana kandungannya yang tinggi akan meningkatkan risiko barah.- malaysiakini
Health Ministry: No indelible ink safety report provided...
The Health Ministry has apparently not provided any safety report on the indelible ink, nor has the Election Commission (EC) asked for such a report, according to Health Minister Dr S Subramaniam.
He
said this when asked if it is true that the active ingredient in the
ink - silver nitrate - had to be watered down to one percent to reduce
cancer risk.“I’m not sure (if there is cancer risk), you have to ask the EC on this. If you are asking whether they have asked us for any report on that, I don’t think so,” he said at a press conference today.
He then turned to another Health Ministry official to ask if the EC had approached the ministry to make “any presentation”, and the reply was in the negative.
“If they have asked us and we have given a report, it is very different, but I am not sure, we can check it,” he continued.
EC chairperson Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof (left) had, during an interview with the Straits Times
of Singapore on May 12, said that the EC was unable to add more silver
nitrate to the ink mixture after being informed by the Health Ministry
of the chemical compound’s adverse health effects on users.“We got a letter from the Health Ministry telling us that if we put more than one percent of silver nitrate in the ink, it could damage the kidney and cause cancer,” Aziz had said in the interview.
However, this was disputed by a voter, who pointed out that there is no mention of carcinogenic, teratonic or mutating effects in the material safety data sheet (MSDS) for silver nitrate.
When the contradicting facts in Ahmad’s statement and MSDS sheets were pointed out, Subramaniam said he needed to get more information on the matter.
“(This is) the first time I am hearing of this,” he said.
Subramaniam was sworn in as health minister on May 16, taking over from his predecessor Liow Tiong Lai and leaving behind his previous portfolio as human resources minister.
Meanwhile, when asked about a protest being planned against a dramatised version of the controversial novel 'Interlok', Subramaniam said he is aware of the protest.“Although the book was already controversial before, a drama would be a double controversy.
“So we will speak to the Information Ministry and the prime minister and see how we can help solve this problem,” the MIC deputy president said.- malaysiakini
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