EditorialCaveat emptor

Caveat emptor

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So the story goes that market inspectors at the Dumaguete Public Market were unable to prevent the entry of rotting fish.

The fish arrived on a Tuesday, but the inspectors only learned about it after a customer bought the fish Wednesday. He told someone about it and that someone alerted the City’s first line of defense at the public market — the inspectors.

It was only then that they confirmed the report and seized about 700 kilos of snappers, groupers and other “first class” fish.

Had that customer (bless his name) not bought any fish that day, he wouldn’t have known of the rotting fish at the public market and there would have been no way for the inspectors to know about it and confiscate the fish before they would have found their way to the stomachs of City residents (and leaders) and added to the overflowing number of patients at the City’s four hospitals.

So now, what is our guarantee that the stuff sold at the public market is safe for public consumption, if it has to take a customer to determine the quality of the food they had just bought? Is the motto of the public market “Caveat emptor (Let the buyer beware)?”

Something is rotten in Denmark. It may not just be fish.

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