Monterey offers healthy, quality-assured meat

Monterey has always been associated with the words quality and trust, automatically guaranteeing that every meat product sold at Monterey supermarket counters and exclusive Monterey Meatshops has undergone the utmost inspection and scrutiny.

Over the years, the brand has won over buyers and meat lovers alike. The fresh and superbly packaged meat items are still widely favored because of Monterey’s commitment to excellence in quality, convenience and affordability of such products. Filipinos know that they are getting good meat, but they are now doubly assured that they are truly getting the finest meat products with Monterey.

The National Meat Inspect-ion Service (NMIS), a regulatory agency dedicated to provide excellent meat inspection ser-vice responsive to the Filipino consumer’s welfare, has certi-fied Monterey’s Fresh Chilled Beef and Fresh Chilled Pork. Apart from passing the strict tests and standards of the group’s criteria, this means that these items possess excellent quality and are therefore safe and highly recommended.

The NMIS is tasked to pro-tect the meat-consuming public, adopting and implementing new technologies to assure food safety. The group promotes the development of the livestock, poultry and meat industry to ensure the adequate supply of quality meat and meat products. It also collaborates with government and industry partners, thoroughly guided by the Meat Inspection Code of the Philippines.

Aside from the certification, the Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Industry (DA-BAI) has also declared and certified recently that Monterey’s commercial farms are disease-free. Regularly inspected for foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), these farms’ pig-production system satisfies and meets very specific require-ments. These farms are in Pam-panga, Tarlac, Nueva Ecija, Bu-lacan, Pangasinan, La Union, Ilocos Sur, Batangas, Quezon, Laguna and Cavite.

With these achievements, Monterey meat buyers are guaranteed that these items have duly passed and surpassed quality standards. They can look forward to clean and healthy processing behind their favorite beef and pork products, sold at conveniently located Monterey outlets and top supermarkets. For more details about Monterey, visit www.monterey.com.ph.