The Negros Occidental Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) urged parents and guardians to practice vigilance when buying school supplies as, according to trade and industry development specialist Reginald Hudierez, consumers must check if the products they are buying are of quality, safe, and intact.
He noted, some notebooks might be missing a couple of pages or materials, such as erasers, crayons and watercolors, which might be toxic or may not have proper labels
“Contact or inform your retailers or supermarkets, because they will be the ones to address the concern, or you could report it to DTI offices,” Hudierez said in an interview with the Philippine Information Agency./WDJ