NFA: ‘Only best-quality rice for calamity victims’

State-run National Food Authority (NFA) on Monday assured the public it releases only the best-quality rice for calamity victims, and is not scraping the bottom of the barrel as rice stocks hit critical levels.

“The NFA is an advocate of food safety as well as good warehouse-keeping practices. It will never issue spoiled rice to calamity victims because I have this standing instruction [to] all our field offices to issue only the best-quality rice for relief operations,” NFA Administrator Jason Laureano Aquino said in a statement.