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Jocelyn R. Uy, 2/28/15, PDI
MANILA, PhilippinesFood business
operators in the country will be
required to establish a mechanism
that would track and trace food
products from the dinner table to
the source to help boost the safety
of Filipino consumers, especially in
cases of product recalls and
contamination.
The establishment of such a
system was made mandatory with
the recent signing of the
Implementing Rules and
Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act
No. 10611 or the Food Safety Act of
2013 by the Department of Health
(DOH) and the Department of
Agriculture (DA).
In a joint press conference last
week, Acting Health Secretary
Janette Garin said that under the
IRR, food business operators will be
required to establish a traceability
system for food, food-producing
plants and animals and other
inputs in the primary and postharvest stages of the food chain.
This system will indicate at the
minimum where the item
immediately came from and where
it will immediately proceed, said
Garin, noting that such mechanism
will be based on principles and
guidelines of the Codex and other
international bodies.
She said this traceability system
would be most helpful in time of
product recalls. The pullout will be