Amid the Ebola reston scare, some 300 kilos of rotten pork meat have been seized in Pasay City.

The local veterinarian office said Rafael Fruelda, of Barangay 186, Maricaban, was caught loading tainted pork chunks into a tricycle, whose driver managed to escape.

Veterinarian Godofredo Villafranca confirmed that the meat was decomposing, noting that although Fruelda held a valid meat permit, the pork had not passed through an authorized slaughterhouse.

He said the meat had foul odor and blood clots, and that the entire stock had no National Meat Inspection Service seal to show that it was safe to eat.

Villafranca said the seized meat stock would be brought to a crocodile farm on Roxas Boulevard as feedstock.

Fruelda will be charged for violating the Meat Inspection Code and Consumer Act of the Philippines, which penalizes sale of unsafe meat with a P1,000 to P10,000 fine and imprisonment from six months to five years.

On Oct. 15 last year, about 200 kilos of rotting pork were confiscated from a meat dealer and his nephew at a checkpoint on Tramo.

Pasay health officials said the meat came from Lemery, Batangas.

Two weeks later, police recovered some 300 kilos of suspect pork meat during a raid on a house along Paredes Street in Barangay 88.

A month earlier, a 40-year-old woman was arrested for selling 150 kilos of spoiled pork. Ferdinand Fabella