The Ministry of Health of Malaysia is the agency responsible for health affairs in Malaysia.

The Food Safety and Quality Division (FSQD) is responsible for ensuring the quality and safety of food in the links of storage, preparation, processing, packaging, transportation, sales and consumption, as well as preventing food fraud and promoting food trade. At the same time, it is responsible for the issuance of fish products export hygiene certificates and supervision of irradiated food.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry (MOA) is mainly responsible for the development of agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery, such as the certification of organic agricultural products, animal traceability systems, and the development of food planting.

Malaysian Quarantine and Inspection Services (MAQIS) is the main department that performs import and export inspection and quarantine. The main responsibility is to carry out inspection and quarantine of imported and exported plants, animals, meat and poultry, fish, agricultural products and food, and issue inspection and quarantine certificates to ensure that Malaysia's imported and exported animals, plants, food and other related products are free of pests, pollution and safety.

The Department of Fisheries (DOF) is mainly responsible for the biological safety and import and export control of aquaculture and aquatic products.

The Department of Veterinary Services is mainly responsible for the supervision of livestock, livestock products and animal feed; inspection processing plants of meat, milk, eggs, animal feed, slaughterhouses and veterinary product ; processing plants

The Bureau of Agriculture is responsible for the certification of organic products, the issuance of plant inspection and quarantine certificates, the registration of pesticides and new plant varieties, and specifies the import conditions for certain plant varieties and agricultural products.

MOSTI's food-related subordinate departments are the Malaysian Bureau of Standards and the Bureau of Chemistry, which are responsible for the formulation of Malaysian Standards (MS) and analytical and inspection services for food.

The Chemistry Department provides chemical analysis and forensic services. Responsible for chemical analysis and inspection of food, water and environment related content.

Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (JAKIM) is a government agency that supervises and manages the standardization of halal food production across the country.

The Malaysian Parliament is the highest legislative body in Malaysia. The main functions of this body are to amend the constitution, legislate, review and supervise national finances, review national policies, etc.