DAVAO City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio urged the sellers of the expired goods retrieved from the burned NCCC Mall Davao to dispose it properly after they were ordered to stop the illegal selling of these grocery items due to health risk.
Acknowledging the fact that should the goods be thrown discriminately, other people would attempt to consume it or resell it, thus, the City Health Office (CHO) already went to Tacunan in Tugbok District where the goods were sold and advised them on how to dispose it so it would not harm anybody.
“Gitudloan sa City Health Office how to dispose ang mga expire na ug nadaot, nabasa nga mga goods (They were taught by CHO to dispose properly the expired good),” she said.
They are also not discounting the possibility that garbage collectors would have interest on it so to avoid this from happening, the seller must observe proper disposal of the food products.
She said that some of the goods sold to the public were either expired and is no longer good for human consumption and may cause possible threat of food poisoning.
The city mayor already ordered the stoppage of the selling of these grocery items because in the first place, they do not have license to retail goods after failure to present business permit during the inspection.
She said they talked with the mall management where they cited that they had no hand in the incident. NCCC entered in a contract with the contractor in the mall’s demolition that whatever items that they would recover will be considered as their own.
“Apparently kaning contractor ilahang gikuha tong mga useful pa and pag-dispose nila they thought of selling it. I don’t know if it is the construction company or ang mga tao sa construction company (Some persons of the contractor salvaged those that can still be used and thought of selling them,” she said.
The NCCC Mall was hit by a massive fire on December 23, 2017 where some of the items where left in the supermarket untouched. It was only on May 19 this year when the demolition started and the contractor hired by the mall retrieved those items as part of the demolition process. (JCR)