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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Monday, January 30, 2017
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BACOLOD City – A whole lot of permits, among others, will be required of those planning to or already operating a lechon business if the ordinance proposed by Councilor Em Ang gets passed.
Violators will be subject to fines, product confiscation and/or imprisonment.
Ang’s proposal came in light of complaints about the way some outlets in the “Lechonan Country” in Barangay 36 prepare and sell roasted pig.
Under the measure, “no person or business establishment shall be allowed to engage in the preparation and sale of lechon, or roasted pig, without a business permit.”
In addition, lechon traders must secure a sanitary permit and a health certificate.
Food handlers must also be required to secure a health certificate and undergo medical examination every six months, Ang said.
Moreover, only hogs freshly slaughtered at the city slaughterhouse may be sold or distributed as lechon, she said.
Any person or business establishment violating the measure shall be fined P5,000; their product will be confiscated, and they will be imprisoned for not more than a month, at the court’s discretion.
Apprehended products shall be endorsed to the City Veterinary Office (CVO) for proper disposal, the councilor said.
The CVO, the City Legal Office’s Enforcement Unit and the Permits and Licensing Division will be tasked to implement the ordinance.
Earlier a resident complained against a spoiled lechon from a stall at the Lechonan Country.
Teresita Besario hauled Juan’s Lechon to the Department of Trade and Industry for allegedly producing spoiled roasted pig on New Year’s Eve.
Besario said they brought to Juan’s Lechon on Dec. 30, 2016 a live hog to be roasted.
When they got the roasted pig around 5:30 p.m. the following day, supposedly to serve it for media noche, they discovered it was spoiled.
Also, several residents of Purok Abi-abihon, Barangay 35 have complained about the foul odor coming from under their houses by the river.
It turned out the odor emanated from spoiled lechon and hog innards, which they suspect were dumped in Barangay 36 and carried by river current to Barangay 35, said Acting Barangay Captain Elizabeth Baker of the latter village.
Barangay 36 is home to the so-called “Lechonan Country,” an area where independent roasted pig sellers abound.
Baker asked city hall to inspect Lechonan Country. She alleged there were “double dead” pigs being roasted there./PN
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