Are steaks for US troops exempt from inspection?
By Niña P. Calleja, Tarra Quismundo
Are food products for US troops in the Philippines covered by the Visiting Forces Agreement and should they be exempt from quarantine inspection?
Are food products for US troops in the Philippines covered by the Visiting Forces Agreement and should they be exempt from quarantine inspection?
More than five weeks after the Vietnamese ship Minh Tuan 68 arrived at the Legazpi City harbor, the 94,000 bags of rice in its cargo hold have been certified “insect-free” and fit for human consumption by the Bureau of Quarantine, a health department-attached agency.
Health and airport authorities are closely monitoring passengers arriving from Cambodia, where more than 60 children were reported to have died from a mysterious respiratory disease, as well as other countries where bird flu cases had been reported in recent years.
With or without an alert from health agencies, monitoring against the possible entry of the avian influenza virus is a standard measure at the arrival areas of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport terminals, a top airport official said Friday.
