QUEZON CITY — Health authorities in Quezon City were directed yesterday to conduct a regular monitoring of slaughterhouses to ensure that edible animals have passed the sanitary and safe requirements set by the local government before they are sold in the market.
This developed as District 1 Councilor Elizabeth "Tita Beth" Delarmente ordered a probe on the dressed hogs reportedly inflicted with foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) police authorities seized recently from a slaughterhouse in Kamuning.
Delarmente, chairman, QC Council’s committee on health, said local health officials should collaborate with the National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS), led by Executive Director Dr. Efren C. Nuestro, to ensure the success of the intensified slaughterhouse operators to see to it that their interior as well as immediate surroundings are clean and tidy at all times.
Local veterinarians, according to her, must present especially when animals are killed.
Delarmente urged the buying public market it a point to buy pork, meat and chicken only from QC and NMIS accredited slaughterhouses to ensure the stuff quality and safety.
She reiterated the appeal of Director Nuestro for the meat-buying public to desist from buying cooked and processed meat products from persons offering them in offices and homes.
Delarmente said persons offering these products be it in sidewalks and homes or offices would certainly become a common sight at the onset of the holiday season.
