Kafe mit Viagra?

Bai Ling

Last time I was hanging out in Kota Kinabalu, I noticed a certain zip to my morning cuppa coffee, which kept me up pretty much the whole night with an aching need to wander the streets late at night. Finally, the answer.

Kota Kinabalu: The Health Ministry has uncovered a coffee company's ploy of mixing its coffee powder products with Viagra just to make the coffee extra special.

Deputy Health Minister, Datuk Dr Haji Abd. Latiff Ahmad, said they found this after doing clinical tests on a sample of the 'special' coffee powder known as "Kopi Kuat" (strong coffee) sold in the market at RM14 per packet.

"We suspected something amiss upon finding out the price of this coffee powder. We then took a sample and sent it to our laboratory for testing and we found it contains ViagraÆhat's why it was called Kopi Kuat (strong coffee)'," he said.

"This particular case arose after the product was registered under the Food Regulations Act. Probably due to strong competition, the company involved put in other additional elements into its coffee powder as to make its coffee more tastier or special. This is what we call a post registration issue," he said.

Similarly in the case of medicine products including herbal medicines, he said the Ministry is always conducting random checks to test samples of the products available in the market to make sure what consumers consume are exactly what is stated when the product went through the registration process.

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