Bilingual Malay/English: Malaysia nutrition label
Bilingual Malay/English, the Malaysian nutrition label under Food Regulations 1985 (amended 2003), 6 mandatory nutrients, per 100 g or 100 ml and per serving, both columns required, Malay and English on pack. Generate a compliant label free.
Reviewed against Food Regulations 1985 (amended 2003) · Page updated October 25, 2026
Nutrition labelling requirements in Malaysia
Packaged food sold in Malaysia must carry a nutrition declaration under Food Regulations 1985 (amended 2003). This page covers the Malaysia - Bilingual Malay/English format: Bilingual Bahasa Melayu + English per Food Reg 1985. A compliant Malaysian nutrition label declares 6 mandatory nutrients: tenaga / energy, protein, karbohidrat / carbs, gula / sugars, lemak / fat and natrium / sodium. Values are declared per 100 g or 100 ml and per serving, both columns required, with energy in kcal, and sodium rather than salt. The panel is headed "Maklumat Pemakanan / Nutrition Information". Malay and English must both appear on pack. There is no mandatory front-of-pack warning scheme. NFL builds a print-ready Malaysian nutrition label from your recipe, applying the rounding rules and reference intakes for Malaysia automatically, and exports it as PDF, PNG, SVG, JPG or EPS.
Official regulation
Key facts
Malaysia food labelling requirements under the Food Regulations 1985
Food labelling in Malaysia is governed by the Food Regulations 1985 (P.U.(A) 437/1985), made under the Food Act 1983 and in force. The Ministry of Health Malaysia administers them through its Food Safety and Quality Programme. The general labelling rules are in Part IV, and many foods also have product-specific standards elsewhere in the Regulations.
Nutrition labelling is mandatory under Regulation 18B for the food categories that regulation lists, by reference to the commodity standards. It is category-based, so not every prepacked food needs a nutrition panel, unlike the EU-style blanket rule.
A nutrition claim brings any food within the nutrition rules. Regulation 18A treats statements about the presence, absence or level of a nutrient as nutrition claims, and the related declarations then become mandatory.
Source: Food Regulations 1985, consolidated version, Ministry of Health Malaysia.
What a Malaysian nutrition panel shows
For foods covered by Regulation 18B, the panel must declare energy, protein, available carbohydrate, total sugars, fat and sodium, which is mandatory. Energy is given in kcal, kJ or both, and nutrients in the units the regulation prescribes.
For multi-serving packs, values per 100 g or per 100 ml and per serving are mandatory. Single-portion packs may give the information per package instead, with the serving details.
Any nutrient linked to a claim must also be declared where the Regulations require it.
Source: Food Regulations 1985, Regulation 18B, and Ministry of Health, Food labelling guidelines.
Bahasa Malaysia and English on food labels
Regulation 10 sets the language rule, and it differs for local and imported foods:
- food produced, prepared or packed in Malaysia must carry the required particulars in Bahasa Malaysia, and may add translations, which is mandatory; and
- imported food may give the required particulars in Bahasa Malaysia or English, and may add translations.
So an imported product does not automatically need a bilingual Malay and English label; one of the two permitted languages is enough, as long as every other Malaysian labelling rule is met.
Source: Food Regulations 1985, Regulation 10.
Imported food labelling and the Healthier Choice Logo
Imported food must comply with the Food Act 1983 and the Food Regulations 1985, including labelling, which is mandatory. The Ministry of Health's import procedure makes importers responsible for checking compliance before import.
If a finished imported product has a labelling non-compliance, relabelling is allowed under a formal Ministry procedure based on section 29(2) of the Food Act 1983, and the corrected label must meet Malaysian rules.
The Healthier Choice Logo is voluntary. Packaged foods and drinks may use it only if they meet the Ministry's nutrient criteria for their category and are approved under the programme; it does not replace the mandatory nutrition panel.
Source: Ministry of Health, Procedure for importation of food, Application for relabelling of imported food, and Healthier Choice Logo Malaysia.
Sources
Primary documents this page was written from, checked 2026-10-04.
How NFL handles it
- Applies the correct rounding rules for every nutrient
- Uses the right Daily Value / Reference Intake table for this jurisdiction
- Renders the required front-of-pack warnings automatically when thresholds are hit
- Handles multilingual labels where required (bilingual EN/FR, EN/ES, Arabic + EN, etc.)
- Exports print-ready vector PDF, PNG, SVG, JPG, and EPS
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