The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Thursday began investigating alleged smuggling into the country of over 5.6 million kilos of frozen meat products.

Jose Reaño, DA undersecretary for livestock, said they are reviewing pertinent documents on Manila’s meat imports to check discrepancy between data of the Bureau of Animal Industry(BAI) and the Bureau of Customs (BOC).

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