MALOLOS CITY, Bulacan, Philippines — Governor Wilhelmino M. Sy Alvarado called Thursday on meat inspectors to be stricter and for police to offer them all the support they need in order to clamp down on the proliferation of “botcha” or meat products unsafe for human consumption as the holiday season fast approaches.

The governor also wrote all the municipal and city mayors and Senior Supt. Fernando H. Mendez Jr., Bulacan Police Provincial Office (PPO), to support the provincial task force against the illegal trading of hot meat.

Alvarado said they also distributed copies of the recently approved provincial ordinance otherwise known as the Provincial Hot Meat Ordinance and urged local executives to strictly implement it including the closure of slaughterhouse that will be found violating the anti-hot meat measure.