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4.1 Sugar Tax
Sugar tax is a tax that charge on the sweetened drinks. Drinks with additional sugars
or sweetened which exceed 5 gram per 100 ml and fruit and vegetable juices which contain
sugar that exceed 12 gram per 100 ml will be charged RM0.40 per litre [ CITATION Kas19 \l
17417 ]. It is launched on 1st of April in 2016. This tax is introduced to help to reduce the
health problems in Malaysia such as obesity and diabetes. This is because according to the
journal, excessive sugar consumption can cause serious problems such as diabetes and
obesity [CITATION Don19 \l 17417 ]. Fraser & Neave Holding Bhd. is affected by this tax
because it is a company that manufacturing and selling beverage such as canned milk, dairy
products and soft drinks that contain sugar [CITATION Fra20 \l 1033 ]. According to the
research stated in the journal, a sugar tax ranging from 5% to 30% decreased the intake of
sugar-sweetened beverage by 4% to 48% [ CITATION Maa17 \l 1033 ]. This shows that this
tax can reduce the percentage of the health problems because people will reduce to buy
sugar-sweetened beverage that cause problems of obesity and diabetes.
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4.0 (INDUSTRY4WRD) - Call for Action [Motion Picture].
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amusement parks in Korea and their substitution with artificial sweeteners’, British
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(GSCM): A systematic literature review and a proposal of a model’, Management of
Environmental Quality, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 484.
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learned from Industry 4.0 implementation in the German manufacturing industry’,
Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management.
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<https://www.nst.com.my/lifestyle/heal/2019/01/445865/beyond-policies>.
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Steenhuis 2017. ‘Food taxes and calories purchased in the virtual supermarket: a
preliminary study’, British Food Journal, vol. 119, no. 12, pp. 2560.
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POLICY ON INDUSTRY 4.0, Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
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