Secure & Alert

 Food crime means something foolish or wrong about food but what the price of every food that is costly is already a crime for the citizen. Filipino worth of living is unaffordable and only those who can spend much can avail, experiences the foods that are delicious and standardize.

We must be appreciated the kind of foods that prepared in our table even it is much expensive at least we can assure how well prepared it is, unlike to the foods that provide in lower price just to afford by others, I'm sure theirs wrong about it!

If you just remember the news about pongko-pongko near by the streets which sold their pork chop in lowest price that's because they were using double dead pork meat. This kind of situation really unfair to the lives of victims. Yes, everyone could afford and partially enjoy the foods but we were sacrifices our health and everyone life just to gain profit?

I hope the authorities must take responsibilities and control with this kind of problem that’s why most establishment and restaurant serves food needs to apply for health certification permit in order to cater foods that is measured and tested by the authorities but still the street vendors is uncontrollable, still sell foods that is unsafe.

 According to Food Standard Agency, food fraud is committed when food is deliberately placed on the market, for financial gain, with the intention of deceiving the consumer like sale the food which is unfit and potentially harmful such as recycling of animal products back into the food chain, packing and selling of beef and poultry with an unknown origin and lastly, selling goods which are past their use by date and the deliberate of food which is product substituted with a cheaper alternative.

In some cases, there’s a lot of suspicious producer action to provide the demand of consumer mostly on producing meat, instead of producing pork or beef meat it is substituted of horse meat which is illegally slaughtered.

Siomai is much known in Cebu City most especially in Tisa, Labangon and different parts of Cebu City, in fact there’s no day you can’t see siomai stalls in nearby streets. What’s most interesting to hear about it is, is substituting the siomai meat into cat or dog meat. This is sound disgusting to the patronize and consumer of siomai as it affect the market of siomai. I know it is not yet proven but it is still continous to the mind of people in connection to siomai. Filipinos are fun of thinking for what if and why not situation mostly we are known “ nega” means negative in every situation.

On my experience: when I was 1st year college, I do love eating siomai in the nearby streets almost every day because it is very affordable. Accidentally, early morning I have to go in the carbon market to buy a weekly consumption and after vegetable, I bought meat lastly. When I bought the meat I really saw how the meat process on the grinder, before the grinder function lot of cockroaches and rats suddenly appear, so imagine how dirty it is? They don’t give effort on cleaning it before using. I ask the operator, “Are you supplier for siomai or siopao sir? He answer: "Yes, I will deliver this later"