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Plant

Southwest Asian Canning Corp (SACC)

Plant

Southwest Asian Canning Corp (SACC)

Site

address
Dumagsa Road, Zone I, Talisayan
city
Zamboanga City
postalCode
7000
country
Philippines

Crimes & Concerns

  1. Labor & Human Rights
  2. Environment

Southwest Asian Canning Corp (SACC) is directly associated with labor & human rights issues such as worker death and environmental issues such as general pollution and water pollution.

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Summary of crew member deaths and potential beriberi cases
The Southwest Asian Canning Corp (SACC) is associated with at least one crew member death.
Labor & Human Rights
In May 2019, Southwest Asian Canning (SACC) was required to halt operations in Zamboanga to repair its boiler after it exploded, “killing one worker and injuring two others,” according to The Inquirer. The three workers were repairing the boiler when it “heated up and exploded around 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 28,” according to the City Government of Zamboanga.
Environment
On October 28, 2024, SACC was one of four Zamboanga sardine factories given a cease-and-desist order (CDO), for violating the Clean Water Act of 2004 by “discharging effluent into the Caragasan to Talisayan Coastal Water Class SC, which greatly exceeded the allowable Department of Environment and Natural Resources effluent standards.”.
On October 28th, 2024, Southwest Asian Canning Corporation was ordered by The Department of Environmental and Natural Resources to stop their operations for at least a week due to alleged violations of the Clean Water Act of 2004.

Stink Radius

Southwest Asian Canning Corp (SACC)
DistancePeopleChildren*
5 miles: 95,66727,016
3 miles: 73,09920,642
1 mile: 23,7036,693
0.5 miles: 7,2492,047
* individuals under the age of 15

At least 7,200 people lived within a half mile of this plant, over 2,000 of them under the age of 15, while more than 95,600 lived within a five-mile radius, of which over 27,000 were under the age of 15, according to 2025 data from World Pop, a research institute based at the University of Southampton. This matters because it gives a sense of how many neighbors experience the quality of life concerns and health impacts of the foul stench of rotting fish and other toxic chemicals released into the air.