KUALA LUMPUR: Milk distributed by Dutch Lady Milk Industries Berhad (Dutch Lady) under the 1Malaysia School Milk Project is safe for students to drink, assured its corporate affairs manager Rohana Safinah Abdul Hamid.
She said distribution of the milk throughout the country especially to rural areas was strictly monitored.
A total of 1.5 million students in 8,000 schools are covered under the project which started last April.
“The teachers have also been advised by our officers on how to prevent the milk from being contaminated,” she told reporters during a familiarisation tour of the company by the media here yesterday.
On the discontinuation of the school milk distribution in 2007, she said it was to enhance the project and not because of milk poisoning as speculated.
Meanwhile, Tetra Pak (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd quality management expert Rina Yeo said each milk package distributed under the project had six layers of cover. — Bernama