A REPRESENTATIVE from Agdao Public Market clarified that the rent has remained consistent, in line with the Revenue Code of Davao City, and any increases were due to the expansion of the building.
Published April 5, 2021, 5:17 PM
DAVAO CITY – Eight vendors and one health worker tested positive for COVID-19 during “surveillance testing” at the Agdao Public Market where around 300 individuals had been subjected to reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test last week, Mayor Sara Duterte here said Monday.
Hundreds of vendors in Agdao Market, Davao City undergo Covid- 19 tests as part of the local government’s “surveillance swabbing.” The “surveillance swabbing,” which will also be conducted in “high-risk” areas of the city, also aims to jack up the daily tests from 600 to 1,000 daily to capture individuals who are positive of Covid-19.(Keith Bacongco / MANILA BULLETIN)
Pork chorizo on display at Agdao Market, Davao City. ( Manila Bulletin / File / Keith Bacongco)
In a statement issued Sunday, the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) said that the country’s plan to import more pork in a bid to curb the rising prices of pork products in the market is not the solution.
“More pork imports are not the solution to high prices. The necessary and more appropriate solution is to help and support local backyard hog raisers to help them recover from losses,” says KMP Chairperson Danilo Ramos.
The peasant leader noted that backyard and farm hog raisers in the country lost a staggering P56 billion due to the African Swine Fever (ASF).
Published January 28, 2021, 11:57 AM
DAVAO CITY – A group of researchers from the University of the Philippines Mindanao (UP Mindanao) found that some skinless longganisa sold in Bankerohan Public Market here contain residual nitrite levels which are way below the minimum required amount for food safety.
Pork chorizo on display at Agdao Market, Davao City. ( Manila Bulletin / File / Keith Bacongco)
The study also showed that as the level of educational attainment of the vendor-processors in the study increased “the chemical hazard on the use of excessive nitrite may have been emphasized more compared to the consequences of its underapplication.”
“The study results demonstrated that all skinless longganisa samples gathered had residual nitrite levels ranging from 0.005–1.031 mg/kg, which is way below the minimum required amount of 50 mg/kg for the inhibition of Clostridium botulinum,” said Dr. Virginia P. Obsioma, Professor at the Department of Food Science and Chemist