MIRI: Eleven items are listed under the Festive Season Maximum Price Control Scheme for Christmas.
The scheme will be on for five days from Dec 23 to 27, said Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Minister Datuk Seri Salahuddin Ayub.
These items include live old chicken (controlled in Sarawak only), chicken wings (controlled in Sarawak, Sabah and Labuan), imported mutton, tomatoes, green capsicum, and round cabbage (imported from China and Indonesia).
Also listed are carrots, potatoes (imported from China), live pig (controlled in Sarawak, Sabah and Labuan), pork belly and pork meat and fat (controlled in Sarawak, Sabah and Labuan).
Salahuddin said more than 2,000 enforcement officers will monitor the prices of goods at public markets, farmers’ markets and retail outlets.
The public can check the prices of the items on the ministry’s website at www.kpdnhep.gov.my.
Meanwhile, the minister said the price of chicken and chicken eggs is being controlled under the implementation of the determination of the retail prices of chicken and chicken eggs mechanism.
