Tainted meat, banned canned goods seized in Legazpi City

LEGAZPI CITY --- About 78 kilos of meat and more than a thousand canned goods suspected to be contaminated with African Swine Fever, was confiscated by the veterinary office here and the National Meat Inspection Service in Bicol on Tuesday. "The operation was done (to) protect swine industry from the havoc of African Swine Fever and to put the health of meat-consuming public safe from zoonotic diseases brought by unhealthy, unhygienic meat soldto the public," Emmanuel Estipona, head of the Legazpi Veterinary office, said in a report Wednesday. Ferdinand Samar, head of the Bicol Communicators and Environmental Rescue Group, said the unsafe meat were recovered from the AlbayDistrict ...

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