Health authorities, however, do not have a list of the 180 food companies in mainland China that Beijing closed down recently, after determining that products from these companies were contaminated. “There was no list provided of the closed establishments and their products, so we cannot pinpoint which particular products we are going after,” an official said.
The Department of Trade and Industry seems to be suggesting that its about time the popular clich an apple a day keeps the doctors away be changed to a banana a day keeps the doctors away. Nelly Esperanza, DTI Davao del Norte chief for consumer welfare and trade regulation, the department will be launching on July 17 banana chips as a health food.
MANILA — The administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is “confident that it will succeed” in addressing the revenue-generation shortfall recorded…
The city government is celebrating July as Nutrition month by carrying out activities relative to good nutrition, proper breastfeeding, and a sustained campaign against malnutrition.
The agriculture department is now undertaking various preventive measures, which are done in stages, to keep Davao and the rest of the Philippines bird-flu free.