{"id":253291,"date":"2020-04-27T23:20:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T03:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=253291"},"modified":"2020-04-27T23:20:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T03:20:36","slug":"dost-gives-ready-to-eat-food-amid-ecq-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/27\/dost-gives-ready-to-eat-food-amid-ecq-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"DOST gives ready-to-eat food amid ECQ restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_253292\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253292\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/screen-shot-2020-04-27-at-71541-pm3isto2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-253292\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/screen-shot-2020-04-27-at-71541-pm3isto2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/screen-shot-2020-04-27-at-71541-pm3isto2.png 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/screen-shot-2020-04-27-at-71541-pm3isto2-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-253292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At least 3,000 pieces were already distributed in five cities in the National Capital Region, while some ready-to-eat smoked fish rice meal and chicken arroz caldo were also distributed in Davao.<br \/>(PNA File Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 More than 3,000 pieces of &#8220;Pack of Hope&#8221; (POH) or ready-to-eat food were distributed by the Department of Science and Technology-Industrial Technology Development Institute (DOST-ITDI) to help augment the need for relief during the implementation of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), it announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>At least 3,000 pieces were already distributed in five cities in the National Capital Region, while some ready-to-eat smoked fish rice meal and chicken arroz caldo were also distributed in Davao.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(The) demand for the POH is high because it has a stable shelf life and it has passed the safety protocols set by both the local and international offices of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA),&#8221; the DOST said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Packed in a retort pouch, a POH has a shelf life of at least one year.<\/p>\n<p>It was developed by the ITDI, and each pouch contains rice porridge.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2015, the DOST already distributed 245,000 rice porridge or Pack of Hope, as well as 42,000 ready-to-eat smoked fish rice meals.<\/p>\n<p>According to the DOST, Pack of Hope were also distributed as relief goods to those affected by the Taal eruption in January.<\/p>\n<p>About 30,000 ready-to-eat rice porridge, smoked fish rice meal, and BigMo (bigas\/rice &#8211; mongo) curls developed by the ITDI were also distributed to quake-hit areas in Mindanao late last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 More than 3,000 pieces of &#8220;Pack of Hope&#8221; (POH) or ready-to-eat food were distributed by the Department of Science &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":253292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ma-cristina-arayata","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253291","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=253291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253293,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253291\/revisions\/253293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}