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BY MERIANNE GRACE EREÑETA
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ILOILO City – Heads up, meat vendors. The slaughterhouse in Barangay Tacas, Jaro district may accommodate hogs again starting Nov. 16.
It has acquired two new boilers, according to Local Economic Enterprise Office chief Ariel Castañeda.
“We bought the new boilers in the last week of October,” Castañeda told Panay News in a phone interview. “We aim to have them blessed by Nov. 15 so we could provide hog slaughter service the following day.”
The boilers are where slaughtered hogs are immersed in hot water before they are dressed.
The slaughterhouse last accommodated hogs on Dec. 29, 2015. Its two old boilers have been dysfunctional since May that year.
According to Castañeda, the new boilers will help meat vendors save money and assure them of a clean slaughter.
He also said the facilities will help the slaughterhouse attain an AA classification from the National Meat Inspection Service.
“A state-of the-art boiler is one of the machines needed to qualify (for the AA classification),” he said.
He assured the public that the two new boilers, worth P3.75 billion, are of good quality.
“They were bought from the Manila-based Cimech Company but the technology is German,” he stressed.
Previously some meat vendors told Panay News they resorted to backyard slaughtering since the Tacas slaughterhouse stopped accommodating hogs.
A vendor at Iloilo Central Market said they turned to a piggery in Barangay San Juan, Molo district that had backyard slaughtering as sideline.
While the piggery had no sanitary permit, the vendor insisted the meat he sells are fresh and not “double dead.”
“I know fresh meat from stale meat just by looking at it,” the vendor, who refused to be identified, told Panay News. “Fresh meat looks clean. The smell is also an indicator of its freshness or staleness.”
Some meat suppliers had their hogs slaughtered at abattoirs in Leganes and Oton towns and even in the component city of Passi, Castañeda said./PN
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