With Malaysia’s population of 28.34

With Malaysia’s population of 28.34 million in 2010, expectations and demand by health community
is on the rise (Ministry of Health, 2012). In 2012, food poisoning was the most critical factor in food and
water-borne diseases which contributed to more than 56 incident rates per 100,000 populations of
Malaysia. Other reported communicable diseases incident rates in year 2012 were cholera (2.02), hepatitis
A (1.71), typhoid (0.84), and dysentery (0.15). On closer examination, Figure 1 demonstrates the
significant growth of incident rates for food poisoning cases in 12 consecutive years has been increasing
to 25 times (Ministry of Health, 2012) which alarmed for further action.