{"id":184910,"date":"2018-10-10T01:18:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T05:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=184910"},"modified":"2018-10-10T01:18:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T05:18:29","slug":"nfa-away-fancy-rice-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/10\/10\/nfa-away-fancy-rice-names\/","title":{"rendered":"NFA to do away with \u2018fancy\u2019 rice names"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_184921\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-184921\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/viber-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-184921\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/viber-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/viber-image.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/viber-image-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/viber-image-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/viber-image-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-184921\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pi\u00f1ol said the teams will check the actual weight of the rice in sacks as a precaution against underweighing. (PNA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA &#8212;<\/strong>\u00a0No more fancy names for rice like\u00a0<em>&#8220;sinandomeng&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0and others, just &#8220;local&#8221; and &#8220;imported.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Pi\u00f1ol said this was approved by the National Food Authority (NFA) Council on Monday (Oct. 8) as the new way to label rice in the markets.<\/p>\n<p>In his Facebook page on the same day, Pi\u00f1ol said the NFA Council, the policy-making body of the rice supply agency, had also approved the implementation of the Suggested Retail Prices for both local and imported rice by the last week of October.<\/p>\n<p>He said the rice bags must have markings indicating when the rice was harvested, what farmers&#8217; group produced it, the name of the miller, and the certification by the Department of Agriculture, the NFA, and the Department of Trade and Industry that the rice had passed quality and food safety standards.<\/p>\n<p>To protect the public from unscrupulous traders, Pi\u00f1ol said the Council also decided on Monday to deploy NFA teams to monitor prices of rice in the markets.<\/p>\n<p>Pi\u00f1ol said the teams will check the actual weight of the rice in sacks as a precaution against underweighing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212;\u00a0No more fancy names for rice like\u00a0&#8220;sinandomeng&#8221;\u00a0and others, just &#8220;local&#8221; and &#8220;imported.&#8221; Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Pi\u00f1ol said this was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":184921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}