By Rey Anthony Chiu
Online meat, pork products
sellers must show NMIS docs
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Oct 13 (PIA) –By this week, online dealers of pork and pork products who could not show proper documents of where their products were sourced out, would have their products confiscated and still be liable of P1,000 to P5,000 fine as well as imprisonment of not more than six months or at the discretion of the courts.
This also includes transport carriers of these illegally shipped products to Bohol would have the products confiscated and the driver, pilot or captain themselves would be fined P5K, even if it is for allowing the loading of such prohibited products.
This as Bohol Sangguniang Panlalawigan passed Provincial Ordinance No. 2022-011, last September 13, the Ordinance revising Provincial Ordinance No. 2021-015 which prohibits the entry of live pig, pork, pork products, frozen semen coming from African Swine Fever affected areas and providing penalties thereof.
Aptly called the Revised Bohol African Swine Fever Prevention Ordinance of 2022, the revised ordinance now carries penal provisions, administrative proceedings as well as the Implementing Rules and Regulations in the furtherance of the policy.
“This is also to protect the consumers who may not know where the meat they are buying online comes, or did it pass through the proper government regulations in meat safety,” briefs Bohol Provincial Veterinarian Dr. Stella Marie Lapiz, in the sidelines during the National African Swine Fever Prevention and Control Program (NASFPCP) ASF Preparedness Private Stakeholders Meeting held at the Panda Tea Garden Suites earlier this week.
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