The Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry has seized 300 bags of rice from 213 packaging and manufacturing premises inspected during Ops Campur.
The ministry's enforcement director-general Datuk Azman Adam said the inspections carried out on Monday (March 10) led to 48 investigation papers being opened, involving 48 of the premises inspected.
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The ministry's enforcement director-general Datuk Azman Adam said the inspections carried out on Monday (March 10) led to 48 investigation papers being opened, involving 48 of the premises inspected.
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00:00As of yesterday, we conducted a survey of 213 packaging factories and factories across the country.
00:21Yesterday alone, we opened 48 survey papers, worth more than RM15,000.
00:32For the information of the media as well, on the first day, we only took samples.
00:40Because we all know that the regulations under the Act of Procedure allow us to take samples.
00:47But if a company is found guilty, it will be considered as if we took or confiscated all the samples in the premises.
01:00So, the number of samples we took, the value of the samples we took, actually does not represent our satisfaction.
01:08What I mean is, it is the same whether we take 1, 100, or 200.
01:14In terms of actions that we take, it is the same.
01:17So, we also need to think that we need to wait for the decision from the side that made this survey,
01:25that is, the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Chemistry.
01:27Okay, if the Ministry of Environment is guilty,
01:29any side that is guilty in carrying out this mixed operation,
01:34they will be fined up to RM100,000 per individual,
01:41while for the company, they can be fined up to RM250,000.
01:47That is the first crime.
01:49So, we will continue this operation.
01:53And my message is, aside from the industry side,
01:57so that we can provide cooperation to the users as well,
02:01give room for the KPDN officers to carry out this task.
02:07And yesterday, we received a commitment from the Mardi side to carry out this test as soon as possible,
02:16so that we can know the decision.
02:18And if there is a need for legal process, prosecution, etc.,
02:23we will carry it out as soon as possible.
02:25And if the industry also needs to make improvements or corrections to the existing problems,
02:32they can also do that even better.
02:35So, that is what we expect, the results that we expect from the mixed operation this time.
02:43We have almost all the people who have carried out the operation correctly,
02:47but we have to see that the exercise this time is related to the mixing of local rice and imported rice.
02:55But if from our research,
02:59let's say it is only imported, it is not involved in the purchase of local rice, etc.
03:05So, we will also do a prediction, we will also take a sample.
03:09But overall, in this ecosystem, I think there are about 2,000 premises that will be involved in the exercise this time.