After the Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) ordered the pullout of glutathione supplements out of the market, Sen. Loren Legarda is pulling out as an endorser of affected products.
Legarda said Wednesday that as a consumer welfare advocate, she is against any form of public deception. Based on the BFAD findings the product she endorses – Lucida-DS/Glutathione 500 mg – do not have the amount of glutathione, along with Glutalife dietary supplement and Vaniderm/Dietary Supplement. Legarda “formally demanded” the company to “dismantle within 24 hours all the billboards showing her as product endorser of Lucida-DS.
Legarda is asking United Shelter Health Products, the Philippine distributor of both Lucida-DS and Vaniderm, to “explain to the public the adverse findings of the BFAD against Lucida-DS.”
United Shelter Products said that its contract with the senator will end this week.
Land Transportation Facilities Regulatory Board (LTFRB) implements a new rate starting on Friday with a minimum of P8.00 for the first four kilometers and P1.50 for every succeeding kilometer. The new rate is for all public utility vehicles except tricycles fare hike’s “across-the-board” nationwide.
Mayor Alvin Uy, on the other hand, as the head of The Bohol Operators of Land Transportation Association (BOLTA) said they will not be implementing a fare increase. Uy claims that an increase is irrelevant to the groups purpose which is to compete with a lower fare, since it is found to be beneficial to commuters.
However, due to the rising cost of fuel, some operators are cutting regular trips during weekdays….
An unexpected tension over ruled last week’s Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) session after Vice Mayor Jose Veloso questioned five items approved by the law makers in his absence. Without the Vice Mayor, supposed Chair of the SP, the session date was changed. More so, made Veloso felt by-passed by his comrades in the Sangguniang Panlungsod.
During the Vice Mayor’s tour in Australia, a supplemental budget of P15.2 M, payment of P200,000 for consultants services, donations amounting P600,000, maintenance and operating expenses of P3M, land purchase of P7M and intelligence fund P1.5M. were approved by the Sangguniang Panlungsod.
Veloso questioned the approval of the P7 million for land acquisition. He said the fund allocation is not included in the annual investment plan of the city.
According to the Vice Mayor, any request of funding should be discussed through argument before its passage for approval. Veloso added that the approval of the five items was hastily decided and was not referred to the committee on appropriations
A militant group of fishermen wants Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to “persuade” oil exploration company, NorAsia Energy Ltd, to abort its planned oil and gas exploration in the Visayan Sea and the Cebu-Bohol Strait. A letter to Rudd, the Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamalakaya ng Pilipinas (National Strength of Movement of Fishers in the Philippines or Pamalakaya) stated that the air and water pollution as well as the noise resulting from the oil exploration would affect fish and other marine life in the area and could result in lean harvests for 100,000 small fishermen in the Visayan Sea.
Provinces straddling the Visayan Sea include Masbate, Biliran, Leyte, Cebu, Bohol, Negros Occidental, Iloilo, and Capiz. That the offshore exploration posed “extreme danger” to the east Visayan Sea, which is a center of marine biodiversity in the Philippines and Southeast Asia...
The content of the letter persistently explains the disadvantage of oil explorations. And that the Prime Minister would personally support and understand the importance of terminating oil exploration agreement in marine biodiversity areas
A Bill at the House of Representatives 3726 grants local government units to regulate and control the use of motorcycles for hire known as habal-habal. The Bill seeks to devolve the regulatory and franchising powers over its operation to the cities and municipalities.
The mandate of the said National law shall be enacted after the House of Representative passes the bill on the third and final reading. The measure is a substitute Bill filed, respectively, by Rep. Edgar Chatta, Ramon Durano 5th dist.of Cebu and Antonio Cuenco, 2nd dist of Cebu.
The Congressman of the first district of the province said that the regulation of habal-habal will augment the revenues of LGUs through franchise fee collections, business permits and other regulatory fees.
