CHO inspection on mobile food vendors eyed
An ex-officio member of the Sangguniang Panlungsod is pushing for the enforcement of sanitary permits for mobile food vendors usually selling their stuffs outside the schools.
Stevie Ray Abitang, president of the Sangguniang Kabataan Federation in the city, said mobile food vendors, at present, do not have sanitary permits from the City Health Office (CHO).
He said the mobile vendors should be required to undergo inspection from the CHO to ensure that the food stuff they are selling are safe and sanitary.
Abitang noted that most of the mobile vendors' customers are students and young children.
Abitang said he will be consulting with Councilor Erwin Plagata, chair of the committee on health, for the possibility of passing an ordinance requiring food vendors to secure sanity permit.
Abitang earlier passed a resolution urging the city's sanitary health inspector to conduct inspections on food vendors in front of schools.
Vendors include those selling fish balls, fruit juices, fried chicken and other food stuff. The vendors are either using a push cart or has a removable makeshift tents outside the school campus.
Food borne diseases usually emanates from street foods because of its unsanitary food handling and practice.