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QC councilors raise caution against proliferation of double-dead meat in public markets
QC councilors raise caution against proliferation of double-dead meat in public markets
QC councilors raise caution against proliferation of double-dead meat in public markets
By AJ Siytangco
Published Mar 11, 2019 11:14 am
By Chito Chavez
Believe or not, animals like human beings can also succumb to heat stroke.
With this report, several Quezon City councilors asked the city government to ensure that only meat products fit for human consumption should reach the table of the consumers.
Councilors Allan Benedict Reyes, Allan Francisco, and Victor Ferrer Jr. asked the city’s market personnel to strictly monitor the delivery of meat products in local wet markets.
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The councilors issued the warning as the possible influx of tainted meat remains a threat as the soaring temperature has caused stroke and similar diseases on farm animals in some towns of Central Luzon in the past.
Ferrer said that hogs and poultry may have been affected by the extreme heat as the temperature in the Central Luzon provinces continues to soar.
With this scenario, Ferrer said that the local veterinary department should be “up on its toes’’ to prevent the sale and distribution of the unsafe meat in the local wet markets particularly in the vicinity of the Balintawak area.
Balintawak area has been the favorite dumping ground of “botcha” or double dead meat due to its proximity to the Central and Northern Luzon provinces.
Quezon City health authorities meanwhile said it has intensified its watch against tainted meat from the provinces especially to the places hit by the recent typhoons.
Teams were dispatched randomly to check on the city’s wet markets where unsafe meat might have found its way.
Francisco welcomed the move of local health authorities, but reminded them to exert extra vigilance in tracking down the rogue dealers of “hot meat’’.
“The errant traders of spoiled meat have gotten smarter that is why local health authorities should be accompanied by police officers in their daily operation,’’ Suntay added.
However, Reyes asked the local meat inspectors and local health officials to be accompanied by the police during their inspections.
In one operation at Commonwealth Market a few years ago, armed vendors, accompanied by goons, drove local health inspectors away who were scheduled to inspect the farm produce and meat products in the market with no police escorts.
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The councilors issued the warning as the possible influx of tainted meat remains a threat as the soaring temperature has caused stroke and similar diseases on farm animals in some towns of Central Luzon in the past.
Ferrer said that hogs and poultry may have been affected by the extreme heat as the temperature in the Central Luzon provinces continues to soar.
With this scenario, Ferrer said that the local veterinary department should be “up on its toes’’ to prevent the sale and distribution of the unsafe meat in the local wet markets particularly in the vicinity of the Balintawak area.
Balintawak area has been the favorite dumping ground of “botcha” or double dead meat due to its proximity to the Central and Northern Luzon provinces.
Quezon City health authorities meanwhile said it has intensified its watch against tainted meat from the provinces especially to the places hit by the recent typhoons.
Teams were dispatched randomly to check on the city’s wet markets where unsafe meat might have found its way.
Francisco welcomed the move of local health authorities, but reminded them to exert extra vigilance in tracking down the rogue dealers of “hot meat’’.
“The errant traders of spoiled meat have gotten smarter that is why local health authorities should be accompanied by police officers in their daily operation,’’ Suntay added.
However, Reyes asked the local meat inspectors and local health officials to be accompanied by the police during their inspections.
In one operation at Commonwealth Market a few years ago, armed vendors, accompanied by goons, drove local health inspectors away who were scheduled to inspect the farm produce and meat products in the market with no police escorts.