Despite the outbreak of African Swine Fever in Luzon area, Cebu’s meat processors and restaurants that sell roasted pigs have assured their consumers—they have adequate supply of pork for the holiday season.
However, he admitted that they might encounter problems in the coming months as demands for lechon double during Christmas season until the New Year because of parties and family gatherings.“We don’t buy commercially raised hogs. All the hogs we buy are backyard-raised,” he said. “We have a supplier who goes around the municipalities to buy hogs,” he said.Unlike House of Lechon, Mandaue City-based meat processor Belcris Food Inc.
He urges the government to release a joint guideline for the meat industry to comply with; it should also contain ASF and not let it spread to other areas in the country.On Sept. 10, 2019, Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia issued Executive Order 15 ordering a complete ban on live hog supply from Luzon, and frozen pork and other pork products processed in the provinces of Rizal and Bulacan.
Last Aug. 22, Garcia signed EO 14 that bans pork and live pigs from ASF-infected countries—Russia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Lithuania, Estonia, Moldova, South Africa, Zambia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Belgium, Latvia, Poland, Romania, China , Mongolia, Vietnam and Cambodia.
Wala ang kasunid yan mayroon dapat walang baboy galing dito sa luzon pqg mayroon humanda na kayo.. Magkaroon naman dyan. ang bacteria hindi mapigilan kung walang aksyon sa bayan..