{"id":17832,"date":"2025-12-11T23:56:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=17832"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:57:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:57:48","slug":"kiko-raises-concern-about-presence-of-smuggled-unfit-for-consumption-food-products-in-restaurants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/kiko-raises-concern-about-presence-of-smuggled-unfit-for-consumption-food-products-in-restaurants\/","title":{"rendered":"KIKO RAISES CONCERN ABOUT PRESENCE OF SMUGGLED, UNFIT FOR CONSUMPTION FOOD PRODUCTS IN RESTAURANTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SENATOR <\/strong><strong>Francis \u201cKiko\u201d Pangilinan on Thursday expressed concern about the possible entry of smuggled, uninspected food products into the local food supply chain through restaurant establishments.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This comes after alleged Chinese smuggler Chaoqun Shi, the lessee of a warehouse that was found with P100 million worth of smuggled frozen meat products, admitted during a Senate committee hearing on Wednesday that he used to supply to some restaurants in Pasay City.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>These\u00a0restaurants\u00a0have\u00a0since\u00a0closed\u00a0down,\u00a0he\u00a0claimed.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cNakakalungkot dahil ito ay pagkain. Inamin nung isang Chinese suspected smuggler na nakakulong ngayon binebenta n\u2019ya \u2018yung mga produkto n\u2019ya sa mga restaurants diyan daw sa area ng Pasay at \u2018yung mga nakumpiskang produkto nila is sinabi ng DA (Department of Agriculture) unfit for human consumption,\u201d the senator lamented in an interview on DZBB.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pangilinan, who chairs the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Food, and Agrarian Reform, led the hearing and the questioning of Shi\u2019s involvement in the smuggling of agricultural products in the country.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He raised concerns that smuggled food products might also be entering local market places.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSo, pati sa mga palengke hindi na ako magtataka kung may mga nakakalusot nitong mga produktong ito kung meron <\/strong><strong>salmonella,\u00a0meron\u00a0e.\u00a0coli,\u201d\u00a0he\u00a0added.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The senator also said that local food production industries are being affected by the entry of smuggled agricultural products, which are sold at low prices.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cAng dahilan kung bakit mura dahil yung binibili nila doon sa China eh patapon na dapat. Bibilhin nila ng mura dahil patapon na\u2014ang tawag doon salvage value\u2014dadalhin dito, ilulublob sa formalin,\u201d Pangilinan lamented.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SENATOR Francis &ldquo;Kiko&rdquo; Pangilinan on Thursday expressed concern about the possible entry of smuggled, uninspected food products into the local food supply chain through restaurant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17834,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17832\/revisions\/17834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}