{"id":235732,"date":"2019-10-24T23:42:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T03:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=235732"},"modified":"2019-10-24T23:42:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T03:42:03","slug":"da-confirms-confiscated-meat-products-contain-asf-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/10\/24\/da-confirms-confiscated-meat-products-contain-asf-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"DA confirms confiscated meat products contain ASF virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_231703\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-231703\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/agriculture-animal-photography-animals-2252541.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-231703\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/agriculture-animal-photography-animals-2252541.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/agriculture-animal-photography-animals-2252541.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/agriculture-animal-photography-animals-2252541-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/agriculture-animal-photography-animals-2252541-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/agriculture-animal-photography-animals-2252541-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-231703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">He said backyard hog raisers within the 1-km. ground zero kept their pigs safe from being culled, then sold them to traders.\u00a0 (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Thursday confirmed that samples taken from processed pork products, such as hotdog, longganisa, and tocino, coming from a Manila-based company tested positive for the African swine fever (ASF) virus.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWe received reports that the team of Mindoro quarantine personnel, along with NMIS (National Meat Inspection Service) and BAI (Bureau of Animal Industry), were able to apprehend hand-carried few items of tocino, hotdog, and other meat products at the Calapan, Mindoro port, \u201c DA spokesman, Assistant Secretary Noel Reyes, told reporters.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThis shows that these pork products came from ASF-affected areas in Luzon that were sold and processed by medium-scale enterprises,\u201d Reyes said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said backyard hog raisers within the 1-km. ground zero kept their pigs safe from being culled, then sold them to traders.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">These traders, in turn, brought the live hogs to non-accredited NMIS slaughterhouses and processed them into tocino, hotdog, and longganisa, among others, he added.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Reyes, however, declined to divulge the name of the brand whose products have tested positive for the ASF virus.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWhat&#8217;s the brand? We cannot say. We will find out in a few days. The NMIS and FDA will tell. From our end, I have yet to receive clearance to comment,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">A clinical laboratory report from the BAI, dated October 15, showed that confiscated meat products tested positive for ASF, a fatal animal disease among pigs that has been found in seven provinces in Luzon \u2013 Cavite, Quezon City, Pangasinan, Bulacan, Pampanga, Nueva Ecija, and Rizal.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">More than 62,000 hogs have so far been killed.<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Thursday confirmed that samples taken from processed pork products, such as hotdog, longganisa, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":231703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-lilybeth-ison","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235732","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235733,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235732\/revisions\/235733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}