Section 1
SECTION 1. Section 4 of Republic Act No. 9296, otherwise known as “The Meat Inspection Code of the Philippines”, hereinafter referred to as the “Act”, is hereby amended by inserting between subsections 15 and 16, to be designated as subsection 16, to read as follows: “SEC. 4. Definition of Terms. – “x x x “16. Hot Meat – the carcass or parts of carcass or food animals which were slaughtered from unregistered/unaccredited meat establishments and have not undergone the required inspection. It also includes undocumented, illegally shipped, and unregistered carcass, parts of carcass and meat products coming from other countries and those that are classified as hot meat by the National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS).” The succeeding subsections shall be renumbered accordingly.