Author:
Agustina Lenny,Lioe Hanifah Nuryani,Andarwulan Nuri
Abstract
Various flavoring agents purchased by micro small medium enterprises (MSME) could be obtained through online marketplace. Their types and legalities have never been investigated in Indonesia. The objective of this study was to obtain an overview of the availability of the flavoring agents on online marketplace and their legality. The legality is defined as the flavoring agents which are marketed and have its compliance to regulation of Indonesian Food and Drug Agency (BPOM), otherwise is illegal. The profiles of online marketed flavoring agents on marketplace are obtained through online survey of flavorings advertisements documented using a check sheet as the tool. Tokopedia and Shopee were chosen as samples in this study because they both are the most popularly e-commerce sites clicked by consumers. A non-probability sampling and sample screening were carried out to obtain eligible samples until it achieved a predetermined amounts. There were 399 flavoring agents observed, with result of 262 legal flavoring agents (65.7%) and the rests were illegal. Mostly, they were of domestic flavorings (98.5 and 88% respectively). The cases of non-conformities forward the rules were: advertising without packaging, repacking, unregistered brands, and incompatible information in their packaging and/or labels when it was cross-checked with BPOM data. Due to the high number of illegal flavoring agents sold online, monitoring of the online flavoring markets should become a priority program of Indonesian government, while consumers need to be cautious. The traders and producer have an urgent action in taking a moral responsibility for the legality of the flavoring agents being marketed.
Publisher
Department of Food Science and Technology, IPB University (Bogor Agricultural University)
Reference46 articles.
1. Adam, A. M. (2020). Sample size determination in survey research. Journal of Scientific Research and Reports, 25(5), 90–97. https://doi.org/10.9734/jsrr/2020/v26i530263
2. Ahn, Y. Y., Ahnert, S. E., Bagrow, J. P., & Barabási, A. L. (2011). Flavor network and the principles of food pairing. Scientific Reports, 1(1), 196. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep00196
3. Alamri, M.S., Qasem, A. A. A., Mohamed, A. A., Hussain, S., Ibraheem, M. A., Sahmlan, G., Alqah, H. A., & Qasha, A. S. 2021. Food packaging’s materials: a food safety perspective. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, 28(8), 4490–4499. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sjbs.2021.04.047
4. [BPOM] Badan Pengawas Obat dan Makanan. (2017). Peraturan Badan Pengawas Obat dan Makanan Nomor 27 Tahun 2017 tentang Pendaftaran Pangan Olahan. Jakarta: Badan Pengawas Obat dan Makanan.
5. [BPOM] Badan Pengawas Obat dan Makanan. (2018). Peraturan Badan Pengawas Obat dan Makanan Nomor 22 Tahun 2018 Tentang Pedoman Pemberian Sertifikat Produksi Pangan Industri Rumah Tangga. Jakarta: Badan Pengawas Obat dan Makanan.