99 probe papers opened in rice mixing crackdown

PUTRAJAYA: The Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry has 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.

Its minister Datuk Armizan Mohd Ali said the operation led to the collection of 99 rice deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) samples, with 17 sent to the Biotechnology and Nanotechnology Research Centre at the Malaysian Agri­cultural Research and Deve­lop­ment Insti­tute (Mardi) for analysis.