00:00 A group is assisting in making inspection and disposal of smuggled agricultural products centralized.
00:07 I am worried that the products you have purchased are being processed to be sold again.
00:13 This is the news of Bernadette Reyes.
00:15 These smuggled agricultural products are now available in a warehouse in Navotas on August 2023.
00:25 The concern is that it was not thrown away because it can be processed and repackaged to be sold in the market, according to the Department of Agriculture.
00:34 The government is investigating this.
00:36 The DA has also issued recommendations to condemn smuggled products.
00:42 Because now, there are third parties who are condemning and burning the products to avoid the problem.
00:51 According to the Department of Agriculture, most of the condemned items that are diverted enter the country as misdeclared items.
00:59 For example, instead of being labeled as meat, it can be labeled as other types of agricultural products.
01:05 And most of these are used as processed meat, which according to the Industrial Agriculture or SINAG, can be eaten unsafe.
01:14 If it is recycled, it can be sold in the market. This should be protected.
01:21 It is not good for human consumption.
01:26 That is why the group is pushing for the construction of a first border inspection facility where inspection and condemnation of smuggled agricultural products is centralized.
01:36 Because now, they are being brought to different places, it is difficult to monitor.
01:40 We need to discuss this well. There are many implications.
01:44 The DA can just supervise because we don't have a facility or to build our own facility.
01:51 GMA Integrated News is also trying to get the attention of the Bureau of Customs on this.
01:56 Bernadette Reyes, reporting for GMA Integrated News.
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