DA chief: There is technical smuggling of meat products

THE Bureau of Customs (BOC) will continue processing and releasing of all imported meat products even as the Department of Agriculture (DA) has ordered recall and revalidation of all import permits for meat and agricultural products after it was uncovered that they were being used as tools in technical smuggling.

A United Nations report showed that bulk of the imported meat products that entered the country were declared as offal--by-products of a butchered animal--as compared to good meat.