What tests show: A lab assistant testing samples of rice. Mardi says they have found mixed local grains in some bags of imported rice. — LOW BOON TAT/The Star
SERDANG: Tests on samples from bags marked as imported white rice have found that between 45% and 50% of them have been mixed with local grains, says the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (Mardi).
This practice confirmed previously-held suspicions that certain bags of imported white rice had actually been diluted with local rice, especially varieties that were subsidised by the government, senior officials of the nation’s top agricultural research agency said.
