Christmas means cutting corners for vendors with no principles.
“The Parañaque City government and the National Meat Inspection Board have seized about 120 kilos of hot meat at the Bicutan Public Marke during a surprise inspection on Wednesday, Dec 11,” reports the Manila Bulletin.
Nilo Germedia, head of the Parañaque City agriculture department, related that one vendor was about to unpack 100 kilos of what was supposedly frozen beef when the inspectors arrived at about 530 am. They found out that the meat was actually buffalo meat imported from India and it didn’t have the proper inspection documents.
The sale of buffalo meat is prohibited under an administrative order from the Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Animal Industry.
Another vendor was nabbed for violation sanitation rules in handling the meet he sold. They got 20 kilos of meat from him.
Authorities said they will “intensify their inspections especially as the Christmas holidays near.”
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