PALO, Leyte – To ensure that salt used in households and food establishments in the region is appropriately iodized, the Regional Bantay Asin Task Force (RBTAF) in Eastern Visayas will kick off its salt monitoring this June.

This was agreed during its first meeting for 2021 at the Hotel Alejandro in Tacloban City on May 4.

The RBTAF will begin its salt monitoring in Tacloban City, the region’s central capital, after it was found out that most of its distributors and dealers are not compliant to the standard iodization.

The task force will set a meeting first with P/CNAOs for the scheduling in their respective areas.

Presiding over the meeting was Mr. Benzczinct Benedikt C. Ortega, FDA-8 Officer-in-Charge and RBATF chairperson, with other members physically present including the representative of the Department of Trade and Industry, Philippine Information Agency, the Philippine National Police, and the Tacloban CNAO.

Meanwhile, virtual participants who joined via Google Meet were representatives of the Department of the Interior and Local Government, Department of Science and Technology and PPA.#Gerico Sabalza