The Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry said it had inspected 308 premises and opened 99 investigation papers under Ops Campur, an enforcement operation targeting rice importers and packers over the issue of mixing imported and local rice.
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00:00bismillahirrahmanirrahim
00:30bismillahirrahmanirrahim
01:00The rice, we want to separate which is local and which is imported.
01:05We have no expertise.
01:07And Alhamdulillah, Mardi, an agency under the Ministry of Agriculture,
01:12recently, we also know,
01:14has announced that they have technology
01:18to print local rice DNA.
01:22Where Mardi, they now have DNA
01:26of all varieties of local rice that are produced.
01:30And they can identify it through the technology of the printer.
01:35So, we see that with the technology,
01:39we can strengthen
01:42the order under the Trade Act effectively.
01:45My strength,
01:47can go to any premises
01:49to take a sample of rice,
01:51and then we will hand it over to Mardi
01:55to make an analysis
01:57whether there is a mixture or not
01:59in the rice samples.
02:02And now we have
02:0499 samples of this rice
02:09and 17 have been handed over to Mardi
02:13to make an analysis.
02:15Can you update the Ministry of Agriculture
02:18on the content of the 48 samples?
02:26Now, 99 samples of rice
02:29involving 99 samples.
02:33And the samples are 17 that we have handed over.
02:37Because you have to remember,
02:39dear media friends,
02:41this authority is related to an issue.
02:45One, the management of the exhibit.
02:48The case needs to be handled properly
02:53to ensure that it is accessible,
02:56admissible.
02:58It can be used as evidence in court.
03:02So, we have to be really careful
03:04so that the samples that we take
03:08so that the analysis from Mardi
03:12can be used as evidence
03:16that can be used in court
03:20if a decision is made to bring it to the court.