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100K MT imported galunggong diverted to markets
The Philippine Star
|April 04, 2024
At least 100,000 metric tons of imported galunggong or round scad were diverted to wet markets during the last nine months, Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. said yesterday.
A crackdown on importers involved in illegal activities has been ordered, Laurel said at a press conference during the three-day food summit at the Philippine Rice Research Institute in Nueva Ecija.
"Vendors in the markets have no liability as it is the importers who divert the (frozen round scad). (Vendors) are just doing their job. I don't think the crackdown will be on the market level," he added.
"The concentration (of the crackdown) will be on the registered importers as most of them are identified but we need to be careful. We don't want to hit legitimate (importers)," he noted.
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