Can Tho tops food safety management ranking
Hanoi (VNA) – The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho
topped the country’s food safety rankings for agro-forestry-fishery products in
2021, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The city ranked first with 94 points. It was followed by Hoa Binh
and Bac Lieu which held 1st and 9th places in the previous rankings.
Notably, the southern province of Long An fell from third
place to eleventh, while Hanoi moved from fourth to 31st on the list.
Last year, 36 out of 63 provinces and cities were considered
to have “good food safety management”, while the rest were in the “qualified”
group.
The rankings are
based on a set of criteria and follows the assessment process issued by the
Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development in 2015.
Five elements make
up the criteria to score localities: efficiency of inspections and punishments
of food safety violations; dissemination and education aiming to raise people’s
awareness of law implementation; directing food safety management; food safety
management, and developing safe food supply chains./.