By NITZ ARANCON Correspondent THE National Meat Inspection Service has found the meat inspection certificate for the controversial 21-ton shipment of dressed chickens now on hold in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental, to have been falsified. NMIS regional director Angie Barcelona revealed this over the weekend even as she said a group of people in the NMIS in Region 3 was being investigated because of the alleged falsification of documents. She said the establishment where the chickens were slaughtered, defeathered and eviscerated was also being questioned. Barcelona identified the firm as Trium Agri Business Company, a firm said to be owned by Rep. Peter Unabia of Misamis Oriental’s 1st District or one of his children. The firm, earlier referred to by Misamis Oriental Gov. Yevgeny Vincente Emano as Trium Agri-Business Logistic Frozen Chicken Meat, shipped the over 21 thousand kilograms of dressed chickens to the Unabia family-owned Anakciano Inc. in Tagoloan town. The dressed chickens were being held in a NMIS-sealed storage facility of Anakciano in Mohon, Tagoloan town. Barcelona broke her silence and revealed the alleged falsification of the meat inspection certificate in an interview with DxIF-Bombo Radyo over the weekend. Except for Trium, she did not identify exactly who were being investigated and neither did she elaborate on the alleged falsification of documents issued in Bulacan. But she disclosed that among the documents falsified were the Aug. 7 meat inspection certificate attributed to the NMIS in Region 3, and an Aug. 8 shipping document. “Sa Pasig nag-originate ang shipment permit pero ang meat inspection certificate sa Bulacan,” Barcelona told radio station DxIF. She said the discovery of the fake documents is the reason why the dressed chickens were still being held in Tagoloan town. Rep. Unabia has yet to issue a statement on the controversy.