ANTIQUE – The Office of the Provincial Veterinarian (ProVet) has so far confiscated 553.909 kilograms of pork and processed pork products at African Swine Fever (ASF) checkpoints in the border towns of Anini-y, Hamtic, Pandan, and Libertad.
Pork products and by-products from ASF-affected areas are banned under Provincial Ordinance No. 2020-242.
Veterinary quarantine inspectors seized cooked dishes like dinuguan, lechon paksiw, pork adobo, menudo, barbecue, and even items like milkfish or beef packed together with pork.
Half of the confiscated items were frozen pork products like bacon, burger patties, embutido, chicharon, ham, tocino, chorizo and longganisa.
The confiscated items also included 8,724 assorted food items manufactured with pork. These included boxes of pizza, pork bouillon cubes, bottles of pork sauce, instant noodles, liver spread, and packs of pork hopia, siomai, lumpia, and siopao.
ProVet disinfected, burned, and buried the confiscated pork items in accordance with the ordinance.
As of Aug. 4, 6,125 hogs worth P57,520,000 were depopulated. ASF spread to the towns of Hamtic, San Jose de Buenavista, Belison, and Sibalom, data from ProVet showed. (With a report from PIO LAVEGA, province of Antique Facebook)/PN
