Several food manufacturers will not raise prices of their Noche Buena products during the Christmas season, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) announced on Friday, a move seen to bring relief to consumers negatively affected by the coronavirus crisis.

In a Viber message, Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez identified these products as meat products bearing the CDO, Century and Virginia Foods brands. He said other brands had heeded his department’s call “to keep [their current] prices in view of the [coronavirus] pandemic and hardships of many Filipinos.”

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