Agriculture Secretary Francisco P. Tiu Laurel Jr. led an inspection on Monday of one-and-a-half dozen container vans suspected of being loaded with tons of frozen fish, but was declared by importers as processed plant-based commodities.
The shipment arrived in Manila’s South Harbor on January 21, and some of the 17 other suspected, yet-to-be-inspected container vans were consigned to Fendee Consumer Goods Trading, a company sharing the same Binondo address as Straradava.
Present during the inspection were BOC officials led by Commissioner Bienvenido Rubio, FDA Director General Dr. Samuel Zacate, Atty. Nathaniel Liberato, BPI Director Gerald Glenn Panganiban, Assistant Director for Regulatory Services Ruel Gesmundo, NPQSD Chief Joan May Tolentino, PQS South Harbor OIC-Area Manager Henrick Exconde and BFAR Director Elizer Salilig. ### (Photos by Jay Morales, DA-OSEC)
