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THE Health Ministry has ordered that "Jif" brand peanut butter be taken off shelves with immediate effect due to contamination. Is this true? Verdict: PARTIALLY TRUE The Health Ministry in a statement released on Monday (May 30), called for "Jif" brand peanut butter to be taken off shelves due to salmonella bacteria contamination. However, the statement said that only the products with the batch numbers of 1274425 to 2140425 were affected. The Ministry said that it had received a notification from the International Food Safety Authorities Network regarding the incident. "The notification said the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) ordered stocks of Jif peanut butter from the affected batches to be withdrawn because of possible salmonella contamination," Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said in the statement. "A check by the Health Ministry on the data of the Malaysia Food Safety Information System confirmed that Jif peanut butter … [Read more...] about QuickCheck: Was a popular peanut butter brand ordered to be taken off shelves?

From left: President Yoon Suk-yeol, U.S. President Joe Biden, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will hold a rare meeting at the NATO summit in Madrid on Wednesday afternoon. [YONHAP] President Yoon Suk-yeol, U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will meet at the NATO summit in Madrid, Spain, on Wednesday afternoon, according to a presidential official on Sunday. The scheduled meeting is the first to take place between leaders of the three countries in four years and nine months since the Hamburg summit between then-President Moon Jae-in, President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in September 2017. During the meeting, they are expected to explore ways the three countries can strengthen cooperation in response to the North Korean nuclear threat, check increasingly aggressive Chinese military actions in the western Pacific and smooth over relations between South Korea and Japan. NATO members at the Madrid summit are likely to adopt … [Read more...] about Yoon, Biden and Kishida to meet at the NATO Summit