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00:00The Department of Agriculture and DTI will cooperate with the Bureau of Customs
00:05to determine the origin of some unique vegetables
00:08that are being sold in a market in Pasay.
00:11According to the DA, the vegetables are lacking in import clearance
00:15and are not safe to eat.
00:18Witnessed by Bernadette Reyes.
00:24Tiger chili, garlic sticks, and Chinese yam.
00:27Just by the name of it, you'll be able to find it in a few markets here in Kartimor Market in Pasay.
00:33But aside from that...
00:34According to some buyers, it's embarrassing to buy vegetables here in Kartimor Market.
00:39Aside from being clean, there are a lot of unique vegetables here,
00:42just like this tiger chili, which is like the largest long pepper.
00:47But according to the Department of Agriculture,
00:49it can be dangerous to eat these.
00:53It's big, but we can't eat it.
00:55Why?
00:56We're afraid because we don't know what they're doing there.
01:02If it's from another country, what is it?
01:04Why would they preserve the good ones?
01:07According to Agriculture Secretary Francisco Chula Uriel Jr.,
01:11the unique vegetables being sold are probably smuggled
01:14and are not safe to eat.
01:16They were not issued with sanitary and phytosanitary import clearance
01:20by the Bureau of Plant Industry.
01:22I don't remember that the BPI has issued SPSICs for those types.
01:29They don't have a health certificate.
01:32So that is actually dangerous.
01:34We don't know if it's high in heavy metals or if there's...
01:38We don't know if it's rejected, if it has pesticide content,
01:42if the fertilizer used is right,
01:45if it's not harmful to humans.
01:48According to the DA,
01:49the vendors may not know that these are smuggled,
01:52but it's important for them to cooperate
01:55to find the source of the vegetables.
01:57We only know that we got it from Divisoria.
02:00We're just selling it here.
02:02We'll coordinate with the DA and DTI
02:06on the sanctions that we can give them.
02:11The DA and DTI will also cooperate with the Bureau of Customs
02:15to find the source of the vegetables.
02:18Meanwhile, from Php 58,
02:20they plan to lower the maximum suggested retail price
02:24or the highest sale of imported rice
02:27to Php 55 on February 5.
02:30After that, they will try to lower it to Php 49.
02:34By March 1, hopefully,
02:37we'll break Php 50 to Php 49 MSRP
02:40as long as world prices remain as is today.
02:45For GMA Integrated News,
02:47I'm Trinidad Reyes, your witness.