Food Safety Alert: 78% of Thai rice is of inferior quality

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Panadda says 78% of rice inspected are inferior quality

September 3, 2014

Permanent secretary to Prime Minister's Office M.L.Panadda Diskul says 78% of rice which were inspected by more than 2,000 inspection groups across the country did not meet specified quality.

He revealed the shocking finding of inferior quality rice during an address to officials and employees of the Department of Rice at TK Palace Hotel on Wednesday.

Speaking to rice officials on a topics “Instilling Merits, Ethics, Unity and Conciliation,” M.L. Panadda said throughout the past decade, politics had bitterly divided the country into groups and created rifts.

He then asked them to be restrain from rushing into doing anything that could become a mistake and guilt, citing example of the controversial rice-pledging scheme.

As the chairman of the subcommittee on rice quantity and quality check, he said rice samples examined by over 2,000 groups showed 78% of rice examined did not meet quality standard.

This was a shocking find as Thai rice was accepted worldwide of its good quality with no competitors, he said.

But it was sad that they had destroyed the name by themselves.

He then urged all rice officials to restore confidence of Thai rice and bring back the reputation.

He also encouraged government officials not to allow politicians to instigate rift and divide the people and turn the 77 provinces into different colours.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/pan...erior-quality/


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