THE NATIONAL Food Authority (NFA) has assured that they distribute good quality rice to calamity victims. “The NFA is an advocate of food safety as well as good warehouse-keeping practices. It will never issue spoiled rice to calamity victims because I have this standing instruction among all our field offices to issue only the best quality rice for relief operations,” NFA Administrator Jason Laureano Y. Aquino said in a statement yesterday. The state-run grains agency was responding to news reports that some evacuees from Marawi City experienced stomach pain after eating what they claim as spoiled rice included in the relief goods distributed to them in Iligan City. Relief goods are also being shipped out to Leyte, which was struck by a 6.5-magnitude earthquake on July 7. — Janina C. Lim

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