State-run National Food Authority (NFA)

State-run National Food Authority (NFA) on Monday assured the general public it releases most effective the satisfactory-high-quality rice for calamity sufferers, and isn't always scraping the lowest of the barrel as rice stocks hit crucial stages.

“The NFA is an advise of food safety as well as excellent warehouse-keeping practices. It will in no way difficulty spoiled rice to calamity sufferers due to the fact I actually have this standing education [to] all our area offices to problem best the first-rate-first-rate rice for comfort operations,” NFA Administrator Jason Laureano Aquino stated in a assertion.

Aquino made the clarification following reports that some evacuees from Marawi City skilled stomach pains after eating what they claimed became spoiled rice protected in remedy items allotted at evacuation facilities in Iligan City.

Aquino stated he right now informed the NFA regional director in Northern Mindanao to conduct an preliminary research, and shaped a team from the business enterprise’s Manila office to visit Lanao del Norte to look into the matter.

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