Skip to main content

Production of healthy food for safe consumption

By Kent Jerico Ramil
PSTC-Ilocos Norte

Ilocos Norte is known for several food products sold even abroad. To fully ensure its safety, DOST Ilocos Norte conducted a training on the current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) with emphasis on food safety for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) on April 24-25, 2014, at the SALINGED Biodiversity Conservation Learning Center and Leisure Park, Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU), Batac City.

A total of 25 participants from five food firms from Ilocos Norte: Mabaleng Food Processors, Padre’s Meat Shop, Testman Enterprises, Winstar Farms and Petrina’s Pastries and Delicacies, joined the training.

The resource persons, Mr. Decth1180 P. Libunao and Mr. Hero D. Galamgam from DOST Regional Office 1 and Engr. Pablo Sandoval, a retired Dept. of Health personnel, shared with the participants the practices required from SMEs to enable them to conform with the guidelines recommended by a regulatory agency providing authorization and license to manufacture and sale of food products.

“It was a fruitful experience and a delight for the participants to have such speakers like them, I was expecting the seminar to be boring, but at the contrary I didn’t even notice that I am actually enjoying the lectures and the workshops,” participant Cynthia Agustin said.


Participants later said they were enlightened and their knowledge was widened on the preparation of healthy food for safer consumption and a marketable product that is not only nationally acclaimed delicious but also certified safe and with quality at its best.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Empanada festival: A celebration of good taste and good life

By Dominic B. dela Cruz & Leilanie G. Adriano Staff reporters BATAC CITY—If there is one thing Batac is truly proud of, it would be its famous empanada-making business that has nurtured its people over the years. Embracing a century-old culture and culinary tradition, Batac’s empanada claims to be the best and tastiest in the country with its distinctive Ilokano taste courtesy of its local ingredients: fresh grated papaya, mongo, chopped longganisa, and egg. The crispy orange wrapper and is made of rice flour that is deep-fried. The celebration of this city’s famous traditional fast food attracting locals and tourists elsewhere comes with the City Charter Day of Batac every 23 rd  of June. Every year, the City Government of Batac led by Mayor Jeffrey Jubal Nalupta commemorate the city’s charter day celebration to further promote its famous One-Town, One Product, the Batac empanada. Empanada City The Batac empanada festival has already become an annua

PIDS expert says income tax cuts justified; warns gov’t of revenue loss

Proposals to amend the personal income tax schedule appear to be well-justified. However, these proposals should include measures that will allow government to recover the revenue loss from lower income taxes. Dr. Rosario Manasan, senior research fellow of state think-tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), said at a seminar sponsored by the Philippine Senate, that government should look for new revenue measures to compensate for the projected revenue loss that will arise as a result of the implementation of any of the various proposals to restructure the personal income tax. Currently, there are several income tax reform proposals pending in both houses of Congress. All of them, according to Dr. Manasan, have the same objective of addressing the phenomenon of bracket creep, which results from “non-indexation to inflation of personal income tax brackets”. Simply put, bracket creep occurs when employees’ income increases over time as a result of inflation. Th

PGIN honors Ilocano heroes of past, present through Heroes Walk

SPO1 Allan Lampitoc Franco of Banna, Ilocos Norte and PO2 Jovalyn D. Lozano of Adams, Ilocos Norte receive a resolution of commendation, a certificate of college scholarship grant to their family members and a P20,000 cash incentive each from the Provincial Government of Ilocos Norte represented by Governor Imee R. Marcos and Vice Governor Angelo M. Barba in recognition of their bravery and heroic acts in the Mamasapano clash in Maguindanao on January 25. Mr. Franco and Mr. Lozano were recognized on March 10 in time for the unveiling of the second batch of Ilocano heroes at the Heroes Walk located along the Sirib Mile in Laoag City.  (Lei Adriano) By Jennifer T. Pambid PGIN-CMO In honor of the heroes who brought freedom, fame and glory to the province as well as to the country in the past century, the Provincial Government of Ilocos Norte (PGIN) through the Education Department and Sirib Youth Office launched the second batch of Ilocano Heroes Walk on March 10, 2015.