PAGASA attended a series of meetings at the Dept. of Agriculture on supply & demand and prices of pork/poultry for Yuletide Season 2008. In the middle of the picture is PAGASA Pres. Steven Cua

PAGASA Pres. Steve Cua is invited as Reactor to the speech of DTI’s Dir. Meynard Orbeta/Bureau of Domestic Trade (left) as Dir. Alicia O. Lustre of DA’s Food Development Center (2nd-L) and Ms. Sandra Bucao, Pres./ Intertek Testing Services Phils. join in during Open Forum at the 1st Processed Food Industry Forum hosted by the Food Entrepreneurs & Exporters of the Phils.

PAGASA Pres. Steven T. Cua attends a regular session of the National Price Coordinating Council discussing the factors affecting the prices of commodities such as food, fuel, flour, rice, cement, etc. With him in picture are (r-l) VP Noli de Castro, DTI Sec. Peter Favilla, DTI USec. Zenaida Maglaya, STC, Phil. Assn. of Meat Processors, Inc. Exec. Dir. Francisco Buencamino and PASI’s Atty. Federico Ples.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (leftmost) was Special Guest of Honor at the Opening Ceremonies of Agrilink, Foodlink, Aqualink 2008, the biggest annual Agri-business Trade Show, where PAGASA has always been an active co-organizer for the last twelve years.

Commotion and confusion caused by the Melamine scare resulted in daily interviews by tri-media for PAGASA President Steven T. Cua as he clarifies controversial and conflicting findings from various food safety agencies in different countries pending test results from the local Bureau of Food and Drugs.