PAGASA was invited to a hearing on the Congressional
Committee on Food Security on 10 October 2017 to act
as a Resource Speaker on food wastage in supermarkets.
PAGASA Pres. Steven T. Cua attested to the fact that
supermarkets have practically zero wastage as bad orders
are returned to suppliers. Having explained to the members
of this Committee of the industry practice regarding bad
orders, STC requested that supermarkets be excluded from
being mentioned in the proposed bill. However, the
Members of the Committee argued that even if that is the
case, they see no harm in adding supermarkets to their list
of establishments with food wastage (even if there is none)
since it will be very difficult to add these establishments
(i.e., supermarkets) again in the future should the occasion
arise that supermarkets may, sometime in the future,
experience food wastage. This being the argument, STC
posed no objection to their adding “supermarkets” in their
list of establishments to be monitored (for food wastage)
in this proposed bill.
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