By Mary Judaline Partlow/PNA
DUMAGUETE CITY – The National Food Authority (NFA) in Negros Oriental continues to monitor whether commercial rice retailers and dealers are heeding the mandated Suggested Retail Price (SRP) of milled rice and the prescribed labeling of rice boxes and price tags.
According to Hilaria Ganzon, NFA-Negros Oriental manager, they have already covered the entire province in its information dissemination on SRP labeling of milled rice, but she admitted that some still have to comply with it.
“Ang uban kay nalibog pa so mao pa na sila ang among kinahanglan nga ma-follow up (some are still confused with it and so we have to make a follow-up with them),” she said.
Last October, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol had ordered the SRP label implementation in response to the supposed “rice crisis” where the prices of commercial rice had skyrocketed last year, she added.
Ganzon said they have included the supermarkets in the monitoring.
The NFA here met with representatives from the supermarkets just last Monday because of the long holiday break, which had slowed down a bit the agency’s information dissemination on labeling, she said.
They promised to comply with the labeling law, she added.
