THE recent uproar over the sale of plastic rice in markets last May is slowly dying down. Trade Minister Rachmat Gobel said the government was unable to find any plastic in the samples of rice inspected by five organizations, among them the Drug and Food Supervisory Board (BPOM) and the National Police forensic laboratory.

The negative results presented by the five laboratories differed with those of state-owned survey company Sucofindo. Previou